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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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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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The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of a sudden you find you're invited to parties. I don't want to be cynical, because I'm not. But I've seen it happen to so many people who move from the left to the right so damn quickly.
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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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Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.
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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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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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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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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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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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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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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this
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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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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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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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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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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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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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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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