Acceptance Speech

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
ARDERN: 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 […]
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 […]
Dorothy Height
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Human Rights Campaign National Dinner - Nov. 8, 1997
November 8, 1997
I want to thank you for this honor and to be a part of this historic occasion. I am really deeply honored. I accept this [National Civil Rights Award] award in the name of the millions who have struggled for civil and human rights. [applause] I accept it with great deal of thanks to Elizabeth Birch for what she has brought in your behalf to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. [applause] I was there almost fifty years ago when Roy Wilkins of the NAACP and A. Philip Randolph joined […]
Mari Lynn “Bob” Bland
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom Of Expression Courage Award Acceptance Speech – April 25, 2017
April 15, 2017
Well, thank you so much to Pen America executive director Suzanne Nossel and to you today for presenting us with this award, and also for the poignant introduction and that beautiful video that you just showed. On behalf of my fellow co-chairs Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez; our national committee including Paola Mendoza and Cassady Fendlay who are here tonight; state organizers; partners, including Pen America; and over 5 million marchers who peacefully assembled in Washington, D.C. [applause] and in over 673 sister marches across the nation and […]
Tarana Burke
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Full Power of Women Speech – April 13, 2018
April 13, 2018
Thank you all, thank you so much. I want to say I'm excited to be here but I feel like this moment needs more words. I'm excited, I'm overwhelmed, I'm humbled, but mostly I'm grateful. When Claudia Ella first emailed me asking if I would accept this honor, I didn't really know what to make of it. And then she said the Me Too movement would get a donation and I said, "Oh!" [laughter] And then she said we get free ad space in Variety and I said, "Okay." And […]