Mother Teresa

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“…The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Professor John Sannes, revealed that what had motivated the committee to confer the Nobel Peace Prize on Mother Teresa had been a comment made by the president of the World Bank, Robert S. McNamara: “Mother Teresa deserves the Nobel Peace Prize because she promotes peace in the most fundamental manner – by her confirmation of the inviolability of human dignity.” She refused to attend the Nobel banquet, but agreed to receive the Nobel Prize ‘in the name of the poor’, to which the Norwegian Nobel Committee agreed…”