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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel – Acceptance Speech
Acceptance speech
English (Translation) Your Majesty, Mr. President of the , Committee Members, Ladies and Gentlemen: With humility I stand before you to receive the high distinction that the Nobel Committee and the Parliament grant to those who have committed their lives on behalf of peace and to the pursuit of justice and solidarity…
moreMikhail Gorbachev – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
English Nobel Lecture, June 5, 1991 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, This moment is no less emotional for me than the one when I first learned about the decision of the Nobel Committee. For on similar occasions great men addressed humankind – men famous for their courage in working to bring together…
moreF.W. de Klerk – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Acceptance and Nobel Lecture, December 10, 1993 Your Majesties, your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is a little more than six years to the end of this century and to the dawning of the new millennium. In three years we will mark the centenary of Alfred Nobel’s death and in eight the…
moreBetty Williams – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1977 I stand here today with a sense of humility, a sense of history, and a sense of honor. I also stand here in the name of courage to give name to a challenge. I feel humble in officially receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, because so many people…
moreEugene F. Fama – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Honored Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen Let me begin by thanking the committee for granting this year’s prize in Economic Sciences to me, my colleague Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller. I have learned much over the years from Lars’s work and from listening to his…
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