RESPONSE: 1998 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee YING RUOCHENG

“It is especially gratifying for me and my colleagues as the award is a tangible justification for our efforts at enhancing creative communication among the peoples of the world. In such a context I would like to consider the award not just as my personal...

RESPONSE: 1996 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee TIRUNELLAI SESHAN

“I deemed this award a tribute to the process of democracy throughout the free world, to the wisdom of millions of India’s electorate not always necessarily formally educated, to the millions of Indian voters who have overcome disabilities of economic...

RESPONSE: 1996 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee TOSHIHIRO TAKAMI

“What I have been doing is what common people have been doing for centuries: to cherish Life and food which sustains life. Life and food are inseparable. The reverence of Life leads to the reverence of food and nature.” 1996 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee...

RESPONSE: 1996 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee JOHN WOONG-JIN OH

“For those who need love most, those who have no place to lean on nor energy to beg, those who are abandoned by their families, and those who are treated with contempt, I live as their servant. I would like to thank all who have given immeasurable love and...