Dad Quote by Owen Jones

My father brought me up to be a socialist.

— Donovan

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

— Leon Askin

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

— Tim Roth

This sounds ridiculous, but my political inspiration is not Marx or Engels or ­anything like that. It was my mum.

— Emily Thornberry

My dad was a miner at South Kirkby colliery. He went on strike but he didn't go to the picket line, he just put…

— Gail Bradbrook

My father was a socialist, so we had some of the most extraordinary people at home.

— Gina Miller

My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a…

— Veruschka von Lehndorff

My father believed in armed struggle.

— Hisham Matar

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

— Sadie Frost

My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.

— Jake Tapper

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

— Pete Seeger

My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in…

— Colin Meloy