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Open your newspaper any day of the week and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government … The newspaper reader feels a sickening sense of impotence. Yet if these feelings of disgust could be united into common action, something effective could be done.
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Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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Peter Benenson
Born:
July 31, 1921
Died:
February 25, 2005
(aged 83)
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Peter Benenson was a British lawyer and the founder of human rights organisation Amnesty International.
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