From Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Mother Teresa's Acceptance Speech December 11, 1979

Today when I received this award I personally am most unworthy, but I'm grateful. I am very happy to receive it in the name of the hungry, of the naked, of the homeless, of the cripples, of the blind, lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved and uncared for. There is dignity and worth in every human life. The greatest destroyer of peace today is the cry of the innocent unborn child. To me the nations who have legalized abortion, they are the poorest nations. For the child is the greatest gift of God to a family, to a nation and to the World.