I know: your choice transcends me. Something must be done about their suffering, and soon. And then, too, there are the Palestinians to whose plight I am sensitive but whose methods I deplore. And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. Tasked with a mission to manage Alfred Nobel's fortune and has ultimate responsibility for fulfilling the intentions of Nobel's will.Several outreach organisations and activities have been developed to inspire generations and disseminate knowledge about the Nobel Prize.Elie Wiesel held his Acceptance Speech on 10 December 1986, in the Oslo City Hall, Norway.Yes, I have faith. (The speech differs somewhat from the written speech. First to our common Creator. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.This is what I say to the young Jewish boy wondering what I have done with his years. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish.
Like “That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget.
)I remember: it happened yesterday or eternities ago. I know: your … When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. This is what the Jewish tradition commands us to do.
Who would allow such crimes to be committed? Without it no action would be possible. … I do not.
)For more than a century, these academic institutions have worked independently to select Nobel Laureates in each prize category. https://time.com/4392267/elie-wiesel-dead-nobel-peace-prize-speech It is in his name that I speak to you and that I express to you my deepest gratitude. Elie was awarded the prize for being a beacon of peace and a leader in a time where the world is still run by violence.
Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.
That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. A young Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of night. I trust Israel, for I have faith in the Jewish people. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.And I tell him that I have tried. No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. Let Israel be given a chance, let hatred and danger be removed from her horizons, and there will be peace in and around the Holy Land.For more than a century, these academic institutions have worked independently to select Nobel Laureates in each prize category.It pleases me because I may say that this honor belongs to all the survivors and their children, and through us, to the Jewish people with whose destiny I have always identified. Wasn’t his fear of war a shield against war?It frightens me because I wonder: do I have the right to represent the multitudes who have perished? That would be presumptuous. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
What have you done with your life?”There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention: victims of hunger, of racism, and political persecution, writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the Left and by the Right. How could the world remain silent?Elie Wiesel’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1986 The Nobel Acceptance Speech delivered by Elie Wiesel in Oslo on December 10, 1986. Thank you, members of the Nobel Committee. The ghetto. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.And then I explained to him how naive we were, that the world did know and remain silent. Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf?