Peter Benenson Quotes
- Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for…
- Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned,…
- Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to…
- Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder…
- The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison,…
- Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the…