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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
Autobiographer
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.
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The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.
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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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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 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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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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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good
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The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
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A faith is something you die for a doctrine is something you kill for there is all the difference in the world.
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Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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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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When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
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If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
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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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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 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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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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