Nobel Peace Prize Quotes

• The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brotherhood, Gold, Silver

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Strong Women, Powerful, Empowering

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Passivity Is, Social Transformation

  Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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• The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Powerful, Commitment, Achievement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Political, Foundation Of Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.

  Nelson Mandela

  Kings, Selfish, War

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Aug 28, 2013

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Freedom, Believe

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.117, Beacon Press

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• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

  Richard Gere

  World, Holiness, Quantum

  "Richard Gere: My Journey as a Buddhist". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. June 9, 2016.

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• The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

  John Bolton

  Thinking, Nobel, Prize

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• I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Life, Peace

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• The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

  Desmond Tutu

  Yesterday, People, Looks

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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• The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

  Guy Burgess

  People, Justice, Way

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• I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

  Omar Bongo

  Nobel, Prize

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• After hearing that he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Putin said, 'Tell me who the other nominees are - and I will eliminate them.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Hearing, Putin, Said

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• I'm not sure what Al Gore did for peace. I don't think he have been high on my list for the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Ron Paul

  Thinking, Als, Lists

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical. He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow; by those who felt he shouldn't meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, War, Winning

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 16, 2011.

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• The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Janet Maslin

  Confused, Oscars, Has Beens

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• Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who is 17, has become the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. So a Pakistani teenager literally can change the world, while American teenagers literally can't even.

  Colin Jost

  Teenager, Winning, World

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• National Review once opined, many years ago, that, every year, the Nobel peace prize should go to the U.S. secretary of defense: The American military is the number-one guarantor of peace in the world. But maybe something like a Nobel freedom prize would be a more appropriate award for Reagan than a peace prize.

  Jay Nordlinger

  Military, Years, Numbers

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• Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks. Just a few years later, after I had entered European Parliament, the same Yasser Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Martin Schulz

  Men, Years, Process

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

  Mort Sahl

  Country, War, Mean

  Twitter post from Apr 08, 2011

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• The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing up.
  
  Friends, we're talking about leading the country, not playing on a third-grade soccer team!
  
  I realize this is the man who got a Nobel Peace Prize for what he would potentially do, but in the real world, you get the prize for producing something, not just promising it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Soccer, Country, Real

  Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.

  Michael O'Leary

  Should, Screws, Nobel

  "The Saturday interview: Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2011.

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