The words of peace

"This collection contains excerpts from the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speeches and lectures given by laureates since the award's inception in 1901.

Long synonymous with personal greatness, leadership, and some of the most noble ideas of the twentieth century, these heroes of peace - whose ranks include Albert Schweitzer; Archbishop Desmond Tutu; the Dalai Lama; Lech Walesa; Mother Teresa; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Oscar Arias Sanchez; Andrie Sakharov; Elie Wiesel; Nelson Mandela; Yitzhak Rabin; and many others - stand as testaments to the human potential for sanity and compassion in the face of the most pressing problems of our age."--BOOK JACKET.