"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."

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Source : The Amnesty International Report, p. 22, 2002.

Peter Benenson

#Justice Quotes #Support Quotes #Amnesty International Quotes

“It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. (Aragorn talking of Eowyn, in the Houses of Healing)”
“We can at least go backstage where itâ€™s cool and get rest, but the fans have to stay and watch in the heat. Itâ€™s not me momâ€¦itâ€™s the fans who have it hard.”
“Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.”
“It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.”
“There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.”
“When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.”
“Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people.”
“I think in general the ends do not justify the means.”

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