Jeremy Corbyn Quotes

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

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

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

The formation of the smallest worker’s organization will for the history writers of the future be more important than the battle of Sadova

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

People joined the Communist Party because it was doing something. It was fighting Fascism.

I came out of the womb into the Labour movement.

America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.

No matter what political cause compels us, we should always feel as though it's being threatened. We should use these causes, whatever they are, to bring people together and get each other excited about our role, so we feel like we can't stop and won't stop.

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.

I spent 20 years working for the trade union movement before becoming a Labour MP. I'm proud to have done both jobs.

What the Labour movement is about is a broad mass of people actively engaged in a democratic process.

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.

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

No one can escape politics. We are all in it. Even if we shy away from it, I just decide to embrace it. And I try to be an ally for other fights.

We on the Left are very good at criticizing people, but we need to build the base to pull people to the Left.

Rallies, marches on Washington, protests, et al. are pointless if there is no action to make them mean something.

Any collective action is made up of individuals who one day decided not to sit and watch anymore.

In Chile, they had penas, where the community would come together to sing and plan how they were going to overthrow the government. There's a real hopefulness in that community style of organizing.

It may sound corny in a cynical age but literally generations of our people have given much of their lives to establishing and cherishing the Labour party because they believed what the party told them when they joined.

We want to spread the movement and want people to join in. Any one who is against corruption should join, be it Baba Ramdev or the common man.

We need leaders who are willing to stand up, drive the debate, and commit our fellow citizens to action.