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Nobel Prize (Peace): Awarded jointly with the peace activist Frédéric Passy. His guiding idea was 'reverence for life'. He donated the prize money to the civil-rights movement. She founded the order 'Missionaries of Charity'. A year later Mandela became President of South Africa. Jointly with the children's-rights activist Kailash Satyarthi. His 1970 kneeling in Warsaw became a symbol of reconciliation. For diplomacy and disarmament: a controversial choice at the time. Founded at the urging of Henri Dunant, the first laureate. Good to know: Henri Dunant shared the very first Nobel Peace Prize: yet lived out his days modestly in the district hospital of Heiden. Albert Schweitzer was at once doctor, theologian, philosopher and acclaimed organ virtuoso: a universal mind. At 35, King was then the youngest peace laureate: he donated all the prize money to the civil-rights movement. Mother Teresa asked for the Nobel banquet to be cancelled, giving the money to the poor instead. Mandela shared the prize with de Klerk, the last apartheid-era president: a symbol of reconciliation.
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Henri Dunant
Awarded jointly with the peace activist Frédéric Passy.
💡 Did you know? Henri Dunant shared the very first Nobel Peace Prize: yet lived out his days modestly in the district hospital of Heiden.
Albert Schweitzer
His guiding idea was 'reverence for life'.
💡 Did you know? Albert Schweitzer was at once doctor, theologian, philosopher and acclaimed organ virtuoso: a universal mind.
Martin Luther King
He donated the prize money to the civil-rights movement.
💡 Did you know? At 35, King was then the youngest peace laureate: he donated all the prize money to the civil-rights movement.
Mother Teresa
She founded the order 'Missionaries of Charity'.
💡 Did you know? Mother Teresa asked for the Nobel banquet to be cancelled, giving the money to the poor instead.
Nelson Mandela
A year later Mandela became President of South Africa.
💡 Did you know? Mandela shared the prize with de Klerk, the last apartheid-era president: a symbol of reconciliation.
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