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“Today's real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and humiliated.”
Source: Nobel Peace Prize lecture, Oslo, 10 December 2001
Context Accepting the prize he shared with the United Nations, three months after the 11 September attacks, he spoke about poverty, conflict and human rights.
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