(AP-Washington Post) Josef Federman - Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky has been awarded Israel's prestigious 2020 Genesis Prize for a lifetime of work promoting political and religious freedoms, organizers announced Tuesday. Following a tradition set by previous winners, Sharansky will forgo the $1 million award, and the prize money will be donated in his honor to nonprofit organizations. Sharansky, quoting the late President Ronald Reagan, said, "freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not passed to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like to live when men were free."
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