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Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.
Peter Benenson / Lawyer
Opinion
Pressure
Years
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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 freedom and justice.
Peter Benenson / Lawyer
Amnesty
Impotence
International
Justice
Rights
Support
Today
Stand
Help
Stand Up
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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 governments - and thats what matters.
Peter Benenson / Lawyer
Government
Thinking
What Matters
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It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters.
Peter Benenson / Lawyer
Amnesty
Function
Publicity
Matters
Governments
Readers
Widely
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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 / Lawyer
Amnesty International
Rights
Way
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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 / Lawyer
Candle
Prison
Rescue
Way
Shot
Those
Burns
Were
Disappeared
Failed
Tortured
Whom
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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 / Lawyer
Religion
Government
Opinion
Week
World
Government World Your
Religion Government World
Report
Somewhere
Open
Executed
Imprisoned
Newspaper
Opinions
Tortured
Unacceptable
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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 or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
Peter Benenson / Lawyer
Banned
Committed
Disappearance
Imprisonment
Impunity
Officials
Secret
Torture
Allow
Carried
Countries
Governments
Two-Thirds
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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 or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
Peter Benenson / Lawyer
Government
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Two
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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 / Lawyer
Chinese
Darkness
Light
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