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

- Peter Benenson

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 …

- Peter Benenson

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 that…

- Peter Benenson

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 impriso…

- Peter Benenson

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 bar…

- Peter Benenson

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 …

- Peter Benenson

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 an…

- Peter Benenson