Betty Boothroyd Quotes

I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

For me socialism has never been an intellectual pursuit. It comes from my upbringing and experience.

I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

My mother - she's a good old classic Northern European socialist - she's totally wonderful, but she raised me up believing that rich people have stolen their money from poor people.

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

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

I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

However illusionary the beliefs and doctrines of traditional European Socialism, it reflects therefore genuine social and political tensions.

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

Be it Resolved, That we urgently call upon the wage earning class to arm itself in order to be able to put forth against their exploiters such an argument which alone can be effective: Violence.

Solidarity forever …. We stand outcast and starving from the wonders we have made.

Every capitalist is your enemy. Every working man is your friend.

Voting for socialism is not socialism any more than a menu is a meal.... Of far greater importance is the economic organization of the working class.

Any member of the party who … advocates crime, sabotage, or other methods of violence as a weapon of the working class to aid in its emancipation, shall be expelled from membership of the party.

Socialists are firmly committed to the principles of democracy.

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