Acceptance Speech

Nadia Murad
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Nobel Lecture - December 10, 2018
December 10, 2018
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Distinguished Members of the Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen, my warm greetings to you. I would like to thank The Nobel Committee for bestowing this honour on me. It is a great honour to have been awarded this valuable prize with my friend Dr Denis Mukwege, who has been working tirelessly to help victims of sexual violence and to be a voice for those women who have been subjected to violence. I want to talk to you from the bottom of my heart and to […]
Maria Ressa
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Nobel Lecture - Dec. 10, 2021
December 10, 2021
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, ladies and gentlemen. I stand before you, a representative of every journalist around the world who is forced to sacrifice so much to hold the line, to stay true to our values and mission: to bring you the truth and hold power to account. I remember the brutal dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi, the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta, my friend Luz Mely Reyes in Venezuela, Roman Protasevich in Belarus (whose plane was […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2022 Profile In Courage Award Ceremony - May 22, 2022
May 22, 2022
Thank you very much, Jack, and thank you to the Kennedy family. Thank you to the board of the Library. Thank you to the nominating committee and the award committee for this Profile In Courage. I just want say a moment first about Rusty Bowers and his family and his story and the grace and the compassion and the courage that they have shown is unmatched and the lesson he gave us tonight and that he has given us throughout is one that as Americans we all benefit and are […]
Alva Myrdal
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech – Dec. 10, 1982
December 10, 1982
Alva Myrdal’s acceptance speech on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Mr. Chairman, I wish to assure you that the brevity of my speech is in no way a measure of the depth of my gratitude. I would like to express special thanks to the Chairman of the Nobel Committee for a bold acknowledgement of the principles which must support all efforts to attain peace and disarmament. My main purpose today is to express my warmly felt thanks to the Norwegian […]
Greta Thunberg
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Acceptance Speech at the 2019 Goldene Kamera Awards - March 30, 2019
March 30, 2019
Thunberg was awarded The Special Prize for Climate Protection at the 2019 Goldene Kamera Awards in Berlin, Germany. I dedicate this award to the people fighting to protect the Hambach Forest. And to activists everywhere who are fighting to keep the fossil fuels in the ground. We live in a strange world. Where all the united science tells us that we are about 11 years away from setting off an irreversible chain reaction way beyond human control that will probably be the end of our civilization as we know it. […]
Jacinda Ardern
categories: Acceptance Speech, Press Conference, Speeches
Acceptance Speech and Press Conference - October 19, 2017
October 19, 2017
Welcome and thank you for all your patience. I want it to be noted I've only left you here for 10 minutes though. I want to start by saying that it is an absolute honor and a privilege to have the ability as the leader of the New Zealand Labour Party to form a government for all New Zealanders. I also want to say that this has been a campaign that has been robust and rigorous, and I want to thank Bill English for the role that he has played […]
Keli Carender
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Acceptance of the Town Hall Award at the 2010 Sammies - April 16, 2010
April 16, 2010
I don’t want to correct you, but it’s Keli. Well I just want to say thank you so much to Sam Adams Alliance for putting this on. I think it really is important to incentivize people to become active in civics and in politics, and as my loving, very loving, and supportive fiancé said, what better way to incentivize capitalists than to reward them. I guess I just wanted to make a few remarks about coming out of the conservative closet or libertarian closet or right of center closet, whatever […]
Nancy Pelosi
categories: Acceptance Speech, Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
Remarks Upon Becoming Speaker of the House - Jan. 3, 2019
January 3, 2019
Pelosi delivered this address after being sworn in for her second term as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Thank you very much, Leader McCarthy. I look forward to working with you in a bipartisan way for the good of our country, respecting our constituents, every one of you, I respect you and the constituents who sent each and every one of us here. They expect and deserve for us to try to find our common ground and we must try to do that—stand our ground where we can’t, […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
American Hebrew Award Acceptance Speech - 13 February 1934
February 13, 1934
Speech Feb 13, 1943 at “American Hebrew” Award for Mrs. Catt’s Petition of Protest against Hitler’s persecution Jews & liberals in Germany [Letter] To Jews the world around I extend my sincerest sympathy. It is my earnest hop that Non-Jews, everywhere, will comprehend the significance of the stupendous problem created by the recent happenings in Germany. These things came so unexpectedly that they were received with a degree of mental stupifaction. It took time to bring one’s self to believe the proved accounts of German acts and still more time […]
Bertha von Suttner
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Nobel Lecture: The Evolution of the Peace Movement – April 18, 1906
April 8, 1906
This translation of Bertha von Suttner's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech is based on the German text published in "Les Prix Nobel en 1905." The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down to earth, remolding them into practical forms, imbuing them with vitality, and then making use of them, has been a long one. One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the […]