Emma Groves (1920 – 2 April 2007) was a leading campaigner for banning the use of plastic bullets and a co-founder of the United Campaign Against Plastic Bullets in Northern Ireland. She began her campaign after she was blinded from being struck in the face by a rubber bullet in 1971.
Read more about Emma Groves: Shooting Incident, Campaign To Ban Plastic Bullets
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“The word unto the prophet spoken
Was writ on tables yet unbroken;
The word by seers or sibyls told,
In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)