Anthony Crosland Quotes
There comes to mind … the divorce laws, licensing laws, prehistoric (and flagrantly unfair) abortion laws, obsolete penalties for sexual abnormality, the illiterate censorship of books and plays, and the remaining restrictions on the equal rights of women. Most of these are intolerable and should be highly offensive to socialists, in whose blood there should always run a trace of the anarchist and the libertarian, and not too much of the prig and the prude.
At the time, most English socialists were not socially liberal while Crosland and others thought that they needed to be to be relevant to the coming generations and to be consistent with the principle of equality. There is no British Constitution like the American Constitution. The Parliament may has to change laws before any progress is made on social issues and civil rights. The courts may not override parliament, and the highest British Court is the House of Lords—part of Parliament.
Anthony Crosland, 1918-1977, British Member of Parliament (Labor), Foreign Minister, Education Secretary & Secretary of State for the Environment The Failure of Socialism, 1967
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Charles Anthony Raven Crosland, known as Anthony Crosland, Tony Crosland or C. A. R. Crosland, was a British Labour Party politician and author.
