The World Peace Prize was established in 1989 by the World Peace Corps Mission.
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Famous quotes containing the words world, peace and/or prize:
“So the first it is written,
will be the twisted or the tortured individuals,
out of line, out of step with world so-called progress.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.”
—Bible: New Testament Matthew 10:34.
“To become a token woman—whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters—is to become something less than a man ... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)