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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

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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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If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.
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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 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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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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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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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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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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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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The New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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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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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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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
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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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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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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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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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Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community
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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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