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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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It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously
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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 think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.
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The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.
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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
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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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She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
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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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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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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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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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The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.
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I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
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Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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