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{{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>}}
 
{{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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In 1978 Egyptian president [[Anwar Sadat]] and [[Israel]] his prime minister [[Menachem Begin]] jointly won the prize for the [[Camp David Accords]].  Having made peace with infidels, Sadat was murdered a little more than two years later by radical [[Islamic]] terrorists.
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In 1978 Egyptian president [[Anwar Sadat]] and [[Israel]] prime minister [[Menachem Begin]] jointly won the prize for the [[Camp David Accords]].  Having made peace with infidels, Sadat was murdered a little more than two years later by radical [[Islamic]] terrorists.
    
In 1989, after [[Soviet]] troops moved into [[Tbilisi]], [[Republic of Georgia|Georgia]] to crack down on protests by killing at least 20 people and leaving hundreds injured or poisoned by gas,<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-soviet-demonstrations/25324233.html</ref> Soviet premier [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for his efforts to preserve [[communist]] [[slavery|enslavement]] in the [[Soviet Union|Soviet Republics]].
 
In 1989, after [[Soviet]] troops moved into [[Tbilisi]], [[Republic of Georgia|Georgia]] to crack down on protests by killing at least 20 people and leaving hundreds injured or poisoned by gas,<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-soviet-demonstrations/25324233.html</ref> Soviet premier [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for his efforts to preserve [[communist]] [[slavery|enslavement]] in the [[Soviet Union|Soviet Republics]].
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