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| | The dictator [[Adolf Hitler]] was a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939 as was [[Joseph Stalin]] in 1945.<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/facts/peace/ Facts on the Nobel Peace Prize</ref> | | The dictator [[Adolf Hitler]] was a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939 as was [[Joseph Stalin]] in 1945.<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/facts/peace/ Facts on the Nobel Peace Prize</ref> |
| − | [[File:Martin Luther King Jr nobel peace prize.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[Martin Luther King]] Jr., 1964 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.]] | + | [[File:Martin Luther King Jr nobel peace prize.jpg|left|200px|thumb|[[Martin Luther King]] Jr., 1964 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.]] |
| | In 1964 [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. His acceptance speech started saying: | | In 1964 [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. His acceptance speech started saying: |
| − | {{Cquote|I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when twenty-two million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice. I accept this award in behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice... I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him. <ref>http://www.drmartinlutherkingjr.com/nobelpeaceprize.htm</ref>}} | + | {{quotebox-float|I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when twenty-two million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice. I accept this award in behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice... I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him. <ref>http://www.drmartinlutherkingjr.com/nobelpeaceprize.htm</ref>}} |
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| | [[Nelson Mandela]] won in 1993 with former [[South Africa]] president Frederik Willem de Klerk for a peaceful transfer of power to black majority rule.<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1993/ The Nobel Peace Prize 1993</ref> Former President [[Jimmy Carter]] won the award in 2002.<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2002/ The Nobel Peace Prize 2002</ref> and | | [[Nelson Mandela]] won in 1993 with former [[South Africa]] president Frederik Willem de Klerk for a peaceful transfer of power to black majority rule.<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1993/ The Nobel Peace Prize 1993</ref> Former President [[Jimmy Carter]] won the award in 2002.<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2002/ The Nobel Peace Prize 2002</ref> and |
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| | The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was a joint award to Kailash Satyarthi and [[Malala Yousafzai]].<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2014/index.html The Nobel Peace Prize 2014</ref> | | The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was a joint award to Kailash Satyarthi and [[Malala Yousafzai]].<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2014/index.html The Nobel Peace Prize 2014</ref> |
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| − | In 2021 the predominantly [[white]] [[Black Lives Matter]] [[terrorist]] organization, which destroyed over $2 billion in the property over the Summer of 2020, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. | + | In 2021 the predominantly [[white]] [[Black Lives Matter]] [[terrorist]] organization, which destroyed over $2 billion in the property over the Summer of 2020,<ref>https://thepostmillennial.com/blm-riot-damages-worst-in-history-totalling-over-2-billion</ref> was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. |
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| | ==References== | | ==References== |