Jeremy Corbyn Quotes

To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.

I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, it carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

Men start revolutionary changes for reasons connected with their private lives.

You can't find your way to social reform through the forces that made social reform necessary.

Perhaps our generation … will live to reflect … that our hard times were not in vain. They should make us more conscious of the conditions which we wish to eradicate.

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I believe the people of Compton are ready for change. They've spoken. Their voice has clearly been heard that they don't want to go backward. They want to go forward.

The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change.

I grew up when Labour was in power and I was able to appreciate the values and the difference the government could make. I joined the party as a teenager and its values run deep though my veins.

Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour.

Sometimes it requires national impetus to deliver real change.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

Leaders play an important role, but it is the Labour party's supporters and potential supporters who should take the lead in discussing and determining the sense of purpose and direction of the party if we are to return to being a social movement aiming to transform our society.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.