Charitable Work
Cohen was diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis shortly after joining Channel 4 News. In 2010, he joined the board of trustees of the Nobel Peace Prize winning global disability charity, Handicap International. He is also a trustee of the LGBT arts charity, Wise Thoughts. and joined a ”it gets better” campaign.
In May 2012, Cohen founded the Out4Marriage campaign for marriage equality in the United Kingdom which features politicians, religious leaders and celebrities explaining on YouTube videos why they support changing the law to allow gay couples to marry.
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“For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.”
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“We have not the motive to prepare ourselves for a “life-work” of teaching, of social work—we know that we would lay it down with hallelujah in the height of our success, to make a home for the right man. And all the time in the background of our consciousness rings the warning that perhaps the right man will never come. A great love is given to very few. Perhaps this make-shift time filler of a job is our life work after all.”
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