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I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.
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Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge the permanent officials.
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If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.
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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 am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?
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Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.
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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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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.
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I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.
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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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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.
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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
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Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work
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The New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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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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