Quotes by Arthur Scargill - Page 1

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.
Arthur Scargill / Politician
Fool
Strikes
Want
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I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.
Arthur Scargill / Politician
Running
Mayors
Vote
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I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.
Arthur Scargill / Politician
Achieve
Idealism
Idealist
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Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.
Arthur Scargill / Politician
Form
Law
People
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There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
Arthur Scargill / Politician
Determined
Feelings
Nonsense
Size
Unions
Clearly
Union
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All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
Arthur Scargill / Politician
Coal Miners
Economic
Miners
Trade
Underestimate
Economic Strength
Indeed
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My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words
Arthur Scargill / Politician
Father
Masters
Stills
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If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.
Arthur Scargill / Politician
Alternatives
Investment
Matter
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The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
Arthur Scargill / Politician
Concrete
Giving
Labour
Labour Party
Party
Support
Trade Unions
Unions
Workers
Failed
Industrial
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If you've got an industry where you've got massive investment, it doesn't matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.
Arthur Scargill / Politician
Investment
Massive
Supplies
Alternative
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Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.
Arthur Scargill / Politician
April
British
Contrast
Gone
Labour
Party
People
Prepared
British People
Democrats
How Far
Liberal
Liberal Democrats
Participate
Strike
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We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.
Arthur Scargill / Politician
Government
Recovery
Years
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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 / Politician
Opportunity
Battle
Labour
Movement
Struggle
Winning
Workers
Industrial
Merely
Transform
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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 we'll begin to change things.
Arthur Scargill / Politician
Action
Direct
Direct Action
Important
People
Wide
Begin
Change Important People
Associations
Sooner
Change Things
Demonstrations
Marches
Rallies
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You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.
Arthur Scargill / Politician
Cutting
Emergence
Movement
Parliament
Party
Policy
Socialist
Trade
Views
Alternative
Political Party
Union
Trade Union
Union Movement
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The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're 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 / Politician
Leadership
Britain
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Europe
Labour
Labour Party
Millions
Party
Philippines
Produce
Streets
Understanding
Willing
Quite
Applaud
Millions Of People
Union
Trade Union
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