Peter Benenson Quotes

• 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, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for

  Peter Benenson

  Rights, Amnesty International, Way

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• 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 candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

  Peter Benenson

  Light, Darkness, Chinese

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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.

  Peter Benenson

  Government, World, Opinion

  The Observer, May 28, 1961.

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• Es la función publicitaria de Amnistía la que creo que ha hecho que su nombre sea tan conocido, no sólo entre los lectores de todo el mundo, sino también entre los gobiernos, y eso es lo que importa.

  Peter Benenson

  Thinking, What Matters, Government

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• Quienes hoy siguen sintiendo impotencia pueden hacer algo: apoyar a Amnistía Internacional. Pueden ayudarla a defender la libertad y la justicia.

  Peter Benenson

  Rights, Justice, Support

  The Amnesty International Report, p. 22, 2002.

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

  Peter Benenson

  Years, Pressure, Opinion

  Peter Benenson's remarks in 1961, as quoted in Paul Gordon Lauren "The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen" (p. 251), 2011.

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• La tortura está prohibida, pero en dos tercios de los países del mundo se sigue cometiendo en secreto. Demasiados gobiernos siguen permitiendo que sus funcionarios lleven a cabo impunemente encarcelamientos injustos, asesinatos o "desapariciones".

  Peter Benenson

  Country, Government, Two

  The Amnesty International Annual Report (p. 22), 2002.

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