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> [“The right of the labour movement, to be honest, has no ideas of any compelling quality, except the instinct for short-term political survival. It would not know an ideological struggle if it stumbled across one in the dark. The only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/the-right-of-the-labour-movement-to-be-honest-has-no-ideas-of-any/)

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## More by Stuart Hall

> [My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to the plantocracy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/my-family-belonged-to-a-very-particular-formation-middle-class-and/)

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> [I would say that New Labour come closer to institutionalising neoliberalism as a social and political form than Thatcher did.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/i-would-say-that-new-labour-come-closer-to-institutionalising/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

> [People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/people-have-to-have-a-language-to-speak-about-where-they-are-and-what/)

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> [The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/the-very-notion-of-great-britain-s-greatness-is-bound-up-with-empire/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

> [“In practice, race was a sliding signifier in Jamaica. The social slippage – the sliding of the signifier – was extensive, constitutive of social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/in-practice-race-was-a-sliding-signifier-in-jamaica-the-social/)

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> [The DuBois Institute in the heart of Harvard is an extremely important political intervention and I'm delighted to be invited to speak here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/the-dubois-institute-in-the-heart-of-harvard-is-an-extremely/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

> [Thatcherism, as an ideology, addresses the fears, the anxieties, the lost identities, of a people. It invites us to think about politics in images.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/thatcherism-as-an-ideology-addresses-the-fears-the-anxieties-the-lost/)

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> [The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/the-question-of-hegemony-is-always-the-question-of-a-new-cultural/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

> [“Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God's name is the point of cultural studies?...At that point, I think anybody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/against-the-urgency-of-people-dying-in-the-streets-what-in-god-s-name/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

> [I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no such thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/i-thought-i-might-find-the-real-me-in-oxford-civil-rights-made-me/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

> [“Music has been called 'the most noise conveying the least information”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/music-has-been-called-the-most-noise-conveying-the-least-information/)

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> [“culture comes into play at precisely the point where biological individuals become subjects, and that what lies between the two is not some automatically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/culture-comes-into-play-at-precisely-the-point-where-biological/)

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> [While every effort is being undertaken to make the memory of the Thatcher government disappear, Thatcherism is still working its way through the system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/while-every-effort-is-being-undertaken-to-make-the-memory-of-the/)

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> [Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/race-is-more-like-a-language-than-it-is-like-the-way-in-which-we-are/)

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> [I have a funny relationship to the British working class movement... I'm in it, but not culturally of it... I was aware that I'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/i-have-a-funny-relationship-to-the-british-working-class-movement-i-m/)

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