Question

PART B: Which quote from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

A“It will not be presumptuous of us if we also add, among our predecessors, the name of another outstanding Nobel Peace Prize winner, the late Rev Martin Luther King Jr.” ( Paragraph 5)
B“Neither should it ever happen that once more the avenues to peaceful change are blocked by usurpers who seek to take power away from the people, in pursuit of their own, ignoble purposes.” ( Paragraph 27)
C“It remains our hope that these, too, will be blessed with sufficient reason to realize that history will not be denied and that the new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.” ( Paragraph 34)
D“We do not believe that this Nobel Peace Prize is intended as a commendation for matters that have happened and passed.” ( Paragraph 40)

Answer 1

B. “Neither should it ever happen that once more the avenues to peaceful change are blocked by usurpers who seek to take power away from the people, in pursuit of their own, ignoble purposes.” (Paragraph 27)

Step-by-step explanation:

This question refers to Nelson Mandela's Nobel Peace Prize Lecture given in 1993.

His speech, although dealing with racial issues in South Africa, quickly expanded to world-wide problems, such as war, violence, poverty, racism. He used his speech as a platform to call for peaceful acts throughout the world.

This purpose of his speech can best be inferred from answer B. where he hopes that never again power seeking, immoral individuals will block the way to peaceful changes and prosperity.