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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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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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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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It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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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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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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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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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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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 House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously
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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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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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She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
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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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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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