Glenda Jackson Quotes

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

an out and out Socialist.

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

I shall die as I have lived, not as a politician but as a socialist.

He was a Communist.

My father brought me up to be a socialist.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.

the president [Truman], all who seriously believe in a socialized state, every left wing organization in America and the Communist Party.

We need writers who will joyfully impose upon themselves the discipline of understanding and acting upon working-class-theory.

Don't talk to me about socialism. What we have, we hold.

Long live the workers' republic that the Workers Party fights for!

The ideas of socialism are not modern ideas.

Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.

Whatever has been done in Western Europe to bring about more justice, more security, more educational opportunities, more welfare and more state responsibility for the poor and the helpless, could never has been achieved without the pressure if socialist ideologies and socialist movements, for all their naiveties and illusions.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth

The working class must be emancipated by the working class., Woman must be given her true place in society by the working class. Child labor must be abolished by the working class. Society must be reconstructed by the working class. The working class must be employed by the working class ., The fruits of labor must be enjoyed by the working class. War, bloody war, must be ended by the working class.

Since Mill, in 1848, wrote his chapter on the future of the working classes, the question of the distribution of wealth has be-come of still greater importance. We cannot look round on the political phenomena of to-day without seeing that this question is at the root of them. We see the perplexity in which men stand, and the divisions springing up in our great political parties, because of the uncertainty of politicians how to grapple with it.