Why did Obama credit his pastor with the "audacity of hope" line in his book?

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03-13-2008, 10:11 PM

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Why did Obama credit his pastor with the "audacity of hope" line in his book?

When it is derived from Martin Luther King's speech when he accepted his nobel peace prize.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-acceptance.html
I have heard Obama credit King for the line multiple times in speeches also.

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