Anything Quote by Emily Thornberry

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

— Joely Richardson

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

— Nina Simone

I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory of historical…

— Murray Bookchin

My biggest source of inspiration is my mum.

— Katie Piper

My dad saw himself as part of a historic struggle for human liberation: he met my mum canvassing for the Labour party in a…

— Owen Jones

[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

— Neil Kinnock

My mother's influence to take on new challenges and do what I though was right even though sometimes the consequences politically speaking were not…

— Jimmy Carter

My mother has always been the biggest inspiration in my life.

— Manushi Chhillar

Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed…

— Anchee Min

The foundation of my political socialization, like everyone, probably started at home, where my mom taught me nothing and everything about politics.

— Laphonza Butler

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

— George Jackson

I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.

— Slavoj Žižek