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3 unusual facts about Peggy Duff


Peggy Duff

She was described by Noam Chomsky as "one of the people who really changed modern history".

Briefly working with Victor Gollancz again, Duff became the secretary of the National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, set up in August 1955, in part, as a response to a number of controversial executions (including that of Ruth Ellis).

Noam Chomsky called Duff, "one of those heroes who is completely unknown, because she did too much," and stated that "she should have won the Nobel Peace Prize about twenty times." He described her as a "leading figure," in both the CND and the anti-Vietnam War movement.



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