“Reading and thinking about Palme makes you wonder who you are. And who you might have been, but weren’t. And where your moral courage went when it was needed. You ask yourself what power drove him – golden boy, aristocratic family, brilliant scion of the best schools and the best cavalry regiment – to embrace from the outset of his career the cause of the exploited, the deprived, the undervalued and the unheard?”
David Cornwell — Olof Palme Award acceptance speech (January 30 2020)
December 13 2021 — David John Moore Cornwell — also known by the pen name John le Carré — died of pneumonia at the Royal Cornwall Hospital on December 12 2020. He turned down all literary honors, but accepted the 2019 Olof Palme Prize. His magnificent acceptance speech is a reminder that Olof Palme’s words and deeds still inspire people to commit to democracy, human rights and peace. His murder must be solved. We owe him that much. Today, perhaps more so than ever before, “one must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.” Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
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