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...time and indeed highlighted the reason for his invitation. The parallels between both countries had been widely recognized among activists by then, with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Chief Albert Luthuli—then president of the African National Congress (ANC) and the first African recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1960—having issued a co-authored statement against apartheid in 1962. King himself had received an invitation to speak in South Africa by NUSAS, but was denied a visa by the South African government...
...degree recipients exceptionally fortunate. The University could hardly have chosen a figure of greater distinction and importance to speak to its graduates at the June ceremonies. One of the world’s most influential diplomats and, together with the U.N., the winner of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, Annan is an especially authentic voice for encouraging public service among some of the country’s best young thinkers. And his invitation is an honorable move on Harvard’s part to draw more attention to the importance of international coalition building...
...It’s the highest honor an American scientist can get short of the Nobel Prize. It means a lot because it’s your peers that vote on this,” Spiegelman said...
Years before reformers like President Mohammed Khatami started talking about political freedom, Ebadi, 56, was demanding fundamental rights from an Islamic regime that systematically violated them. Her Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 gave Ebadi even greater moral authority inside Iran, injecting fresh hope into a pro-democracy movement that has suffered escalating repression at the hands of the mullahs. She refuses to be pessimistic. "When you are hopeless," she says, "you are at a dead...
...swore to banish forever the kind of error made by the Red Cross from 1940 to 1944, when it distributed packages but remained silent over the crime of the death camps, where his grandparents perished. He co-founded Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), which was awarded the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, and then Medecins du Monde. These are organizations that break the silence and strip mass assassination of its mantle of darkness...