Tony Benn

Also known as Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, Viscount Stansgate, 2nd Viscount Stansgate

British politician (1925–2014)

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“The stars were just out and the crowd were laughing and joking but underneath it all was the tragedy of 6 million dead in the gas chambers and the miracle of a home for Jews after 1,900 years of pogrom and ghetto.”
“The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.”
“Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise.”
“We want industry to be in the public sector, to change the power structure of our society...We have not yet carved out of public enterprise a wide enough area of management decision which ought properly to be brought within the ambit of the workers themselves.”
“[M]en who would rather go to jail than betray what they believe to be their duty to their fellow workers and the principles which they hold.”
“Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.”