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“When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.” quote by Tony Benn — Download Open image

“When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.”

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Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when you write it down, and when you reread it and realise you were wrong. Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I…

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Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

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Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part…

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People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and…

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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You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a…

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Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you…

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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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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

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People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.

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