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Elie Wiesel Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

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In “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” Elie Wiesel is persuading readers to understand the struggle with human rights. Wiesel says that he does not have the right to accept this honor, as he says “No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.” Which is stating that he doesn’t have the right to speak for the dead, living, victims, and the survivors. Throughout his speech, he said that this honor belonged to all the survivors and their children, and to the Jewish people. Wiesel is trying to defend human rights, and to have peace all around the world, and that it doesn't matter the race, religion, and gender of who you are. “When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders
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