Tony Benn Quotes About Revolution
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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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If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.
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Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution
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Tony Benn
- Born: April 3, 1925
- Died: March 14, 2014
- Occupation: Former Member of the European Parliament
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