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The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transf

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. – Arthur Scargill

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The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, theyre quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain. – Arthur Scargill

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Leadership
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Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner well begin to change things. – Arthur Scargill

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Change
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All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have. – Arthur Scargill

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The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development. – Andrew Cuomo

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There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained. – Ron Paul

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Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. Thats true. – William J. Clinton

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If pro is the opposite of con what is the opposite of progress? – Paul Harvey

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