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I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
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Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.
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The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
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Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.
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I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
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