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The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.

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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 ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
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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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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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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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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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I am a public library
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I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.
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It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.
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Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.
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When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, New Labour is a new political party - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.
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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 opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand
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I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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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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I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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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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