Witness of Hope: Centennial Nobel Peace Prize Speeches: Chinese-English Parallel Text

Author: Wang Xiaoye
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Scanning through the speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates over more than a century, one perceives a historical and spiritual tapestry, filled with many heart-stirring deeds: the high-ranking, like Jimmy Carter, who insisted on staying in Haiti amidst the threat of gunfire to negotiate and mediate until a peace agreement was finally reached; the enduring, like Mother Teresa, who, for fifty years, helped the poor, leaving no money behind after her passing; the magnanimous, like Rabin and Arafat, who abandoned the prejudices intertwined with nationality, history, and war, resolutely turning swords into plowshares, embodying a composed demeanor akin to "a smile erasing old grievances upon meeting."