Sunday, February 27, 2005
Peter Benenson: "Physician, heal thyself"
The founder of Amnesty International, Peter Benenson, died. I admit to never having heard of him, but based on this, he was my kind of guy:
"Almost every British prime minister in the past 40 years has offered to recommend him for knighthood, but he responded to each with a personal letter suggesting that 'if they truly wished to honor his work, they would clean up their own back yard first, and then he would set out a litany of human rights violations the British government was complicit in.'"
