Peace
Shimon Peres – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Shimon Peres delivering his Nobel Prize lecture. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Your Majesties, Members of the Nobel Committee, Prime Minister Brundtland, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Chairman Arafat, Members of the Norwegian Government, Distinguished Guests, I thank the Nobel Prize Committee for its decision to name me among the laureates of the Peace…
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Yitzhak Rabin – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Yitzhak Rabin delivering his Nobel Prize lecture. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Your Majesty the King, Your Royal Highness, Esteemed Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Honorable Prime Minister, Madame Gro Harlem Brundtland, Ministers, Members of the Parliament and Ambassadors, Fellow Laureates, Distinguished Guests, Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen, At an age when most…
moreMother Teresa – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, 11 December, 1979 As we have gathered here together to thank God for the Nobel Peace Prize I think it will be beautiful that we pray the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi which always surprises me very much – we pray this prayer every day after Holy Communion, because it is very…
moreOscar Arias Sánchez – Acceptance Speech
Acceptance speech
Oscar Arias Sánchez’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1987 When you decided to honour me with this prize, you decided to honour a country of peace, you decided to honour Costa Rica. When in this year, 1987, you carried out the will of…
moreOscar Arias Sánchez – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
English Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1987 Only Peace Can Write the New History Desiring peace Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one’s soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica, have realized those words by Erasmus. Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter…
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