"I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance……" — Tony Blair
"I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today"
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193 Quotes by Tony Blair
Tony Blair has 193 quotes on this site.
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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
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Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not…
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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
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The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out…
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And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea.…
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I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.
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Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
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Be a doer and not a critic.
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Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to…
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Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will…
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More Abolition Quotes
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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of…
— Edward Abbey
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
— Maya Angelou
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Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There…
— Jonathan Schell
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent…
— Ronald Reagan
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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.…
— Karl Marx
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I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of…
— George Washington
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The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave…
— Margaret E. Knight
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For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of…
— Henry George
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