What difference could I make?
The following three people asked themselves the same questions. They also answered
and today are honored for their strength, courage, and determination. These people are all just like you. They eat, sleep, live, and die just like
you. The only difference is they took a stand for an injustice and had the courage to do something about it.
What Are YOU Waiting For?
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1997, in two equal parts, to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and to the campaign's coordinator Jody Williams for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
Jody Williams, age 47, began working for the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation at the end of 1991 to bring together a coalition to ban antipersonnel landmines. From two organizations, the coalition has grown to more than 1,000 non-governmental organizations in over 60 countries working together as the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL
Nobel Peace Prize
Architect, sculptor and human rights leader. The 1980 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Adolfo Perez Esquivel, an Argentine human rights activist who boldly challenged his country's military government and paid with more than a year in prison. The 48-year-old was honored for having "shone a light in the darkness" of Argentina during a period of leftist terrorism and right-wing government repression, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
Rigoberta Menchu
Nobel Peace Prize
Rigoberta Menchu, the Quiche Indian awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, is a courageous and charismatic woman who has risen above her meager beginnings and suffering to advocate a peaceful, nonconfrontational end to Guatemala's 30-year-old civil war, a Boston resident and a visitor, who know her well, said yesterday. "She saw people from her village die around her," said Michael Delaney, 31, the resident who has known Menchu through his work as Central American program coordinator for Oxfam America. "Members of her family were tortured and killed in brutal ways. To come out of that working for peace, instead of being embittered, is very striking," he said.
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