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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
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge the permanent officials.
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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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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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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 thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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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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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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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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If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?
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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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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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If you read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, which I have outside, I bought it when I was eleven, Hitler said, democracy inevitably leads to Marxism - now you work that one out. It's so interesting that when the poor have the vote they will use it to remove the privileges of the rich.
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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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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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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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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 present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.
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