Ellen Wilkinson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.
-- Ellen Wilkinson

#Party #Political #Unemployment
Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.
-- Ellen Wilkinson

#Government #People
My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
-- Ellen Wilkinson

#Mother #Sick #Extravagance
I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.
-- Ellen Wilkinson

#Scholarship #University
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
-- Ellen Wilkinson

#Country #House #Might
Free milk will be provided in Hoxton and Shoredith, in Eton and Harrow. What more social equality can you have than that?
-- Ellen Wilkinson

#Eton #Milk #Social

[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.
We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.
The goal of the future is full unemployment
It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
The final solution for unemployment is work.

Ellen Wilkinson famous quotes

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