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Elie Wiesel’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1986. It is with a profound sense of humility that I accept the honor you have chosen to bestow upon me. I know: your choice transcends me. This both frightens and pleases me.
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1986 was awarded to Elie Wiesel "for...
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Mankind, jewel of his creation, had succeeded in building an...
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The Nobel Acceptance Speech delivered by Elie Wiesel in Oslo on December 10, 1986. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Chairman Aarvik, members of the Nobel Committee, ladies and gentlemen: Words of gratitude. First to our common Creator. This is what the Jewish tradition commands us to do.
Mankind, jewel of his creation, had succeeded in building an inverted Tower of Babel, reaching not toward heaven but toward an anti-heaven, there to create a parallel society, a new “creation” with its own princes and gods, laws and principles, jailers and prisoners.
One person — a Raoul Wallenberg, an Albert Schweitzer, one person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1986. Presentation Speech by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is...
activist Elie Wiesel (September 30, 1928–July 2, 2016) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee called him a “messenger to mankind.” Wiesel lived up to that moniker with exquisite eloquence on December 10 that year — exac tly ninety years after Alfred Nobel died — as he took the stage at Norway’s Oslo City Hall and ...
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The Nobel Acceptance Speech Delivered by Elie Wiesel in Oslo on December 10, 1986 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Chairman Aarvik, members of the Nobel Committee, ladies...