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Inspirational words from Tony Benn

22/06/2011

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Capitalism always talks about choice...well choice depends on the freedom to choose and when you are shackled to debt, you don’t have the freedom to choose.

Debt is in many forms: mortgage, tuition fees, credit cards and loans...so don’t go thinking you are free.

People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote.

Keeping people hopeless and pessimistic is a way of controlling them. In fact there are two ways of keeping people controlled:

•             By fear
•             By demoralising them

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern. And deceive. That is why the Condems are attacking education and the NHS to make us less confident and less engaged in democracy. Democracy and the enfranchisement of working people has brought social advances that the wealthy would never give through "choice" or a social duty.

Why is it that people put up with 1% of the world’s population owning 80% of the world’s resources?

The poor and demoralised think perhaps the safest thing to do is take orders and hope for the best.
 


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