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

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

Peter Benenson

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“To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action plans requires a goal you desire, desire requires a positive attitude to change your life, and the option to change your life requires WORK. Byron Pulsifer, from Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?”
“No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit.”
“Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, I am not certain quite That even now I've got it right.”

Source : "Eletelephony" l. 1 (ca. 1880)
“Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.”
“Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.”
“If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.”

Source : Letter to Robert Tyler, March 12, 1848.
“Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.”
“What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.”

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