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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
Autobiographer
Diarist
Former Member Of The European Parliament
Politician
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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Broadcasting
Politics
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There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.
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The police are controlled by the whites, the media are controlled by the whites, the army's controlled by the whites, what hope is there for change? Administration changes from underneath.
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I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
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I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.
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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.
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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.
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I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.
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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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Remember, imperialism is always presented as humanitarian: the white man's burden, the cross going round the world, the poor benighted natives, the sun never sets. . . So you have to be very careful about humanitarianism.
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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
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The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.
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There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.
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