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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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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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The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.
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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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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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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
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Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction
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The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
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Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.
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Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.
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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.
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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 do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces
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The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.
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My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.
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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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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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