Peter Benenson Quotes

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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.

Peter Benenson

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

Peter Benenson