"On May 28 1961 I wrote an article in The Observer newspaper which gave birth to Amnesty International. It began with these words: "Open your newspaper any day of the week and you will find a report form 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 Beneson
Bronze or Hydrastone
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