02153 – This Award is for You
Tutu, Desmond

[Acceptance speech upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize:]

This award is for mothers, who sit at railway stations to try to eke out an existence, selling potatoes, selling mealies, selling produce.

This award is for you, fathers, sitting in a single-sex hostel, separated from your children for 11 months a year…

This award is for you, mothers in the KTC squatter camp, whose shelters are destroyed callously every day, and who sit on soaking mattresses in the winter rain, holding whimpering babies…

This award is for you, the 3.5 million of our people who have been uprooted and dumped as if you were rubbish. This award is for you.

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