And the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet has dedicated their Nobel Peace Prize to “every single Tunisian.” Abdessattar Ben Moussa of the Tunisian Human Rights League, one of the civil society groups that makes up the quartet, spoke on Wednesday before today’s award ceremony.

Abdessattar Ben Moussa: “We would like to thank the Norwegian Nobel Committee for having bestowed upon us, the quartet, this very prestigious prize. It is a prize awarded to every single Tunisian, to the people who lost martyrs. It is awarded in memory of all the martyrs who sacrificed their blood in service of liberty. It comes in recognition of the major sacrifice paid in blood by Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi.”

The Nobel Committee says the prize seeks to honor the quartet’s contribution to building a pluralistic democracy after the 2011 Tunisian revolution, which toppled Tunisia’s longtime U.S.-backed dictator.