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This is a good day for the world's children. Children who today have no right to their own childhood, to education, to personal inviolability, have with these two representatives, these prize winners, got a voice both for the right to education — particularly for girls — and against unfair and exploitative child labor.

— Angela Merkel

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Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long.

History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom.

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