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Diane Abbott Quotes

born 1953 England

Diane Julie Abbott (born 27 September 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who served as Shadow Home Secretary from 2016 to 2020. She was first elected at the 1987 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington.

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I'm in politics to be a voice for people who don't have a voice.

I think politicians complaining about the media is like sailors complaining about the weather.

Numbers are a polite way of expressing hostility to migration as a whole.

I think the public sector cuts have the potential to set back race relations and black and ethnic minority communities by a generation.

I put being a mother ahead of being a politician.

You have to start from an understanding that all white people are racist.

In a global world, we need migration and migrants. They should not be subjected to a hostile environment.

The disproportionate use of force is clearly discriminatory. This is not a recipe for good police-community relations.

We don't want to see the break-up of families from the EU in the way we currently do for non-EU families.

I’m a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

I will argue for the right of the electorate to vote on any deal that is finally agreed.

White people love playing ‘divide & rule’. We should not play their game.

Another vote would be the democratic thing to do to move Brexit forward.

I want power. I suppose that's the story of my life - seeking power.

If you want people to participate and be interested, part of that is to have a political class that looks like the population as a whole.

Of course, sex is great. We don't have to pretend otherwise. But people shouldn't feel victimised by a pornified culture and girls shouldn't be forced to do things they don't feel comfortable with.

Being an MP is the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children — clean, indoors and no heavy lifting.

Migrants from outside the EU should be treated with the same fairness as EU migrants after Brexit.

Ireland is our struggle. Every defeat of the British state is a victory for all of us. A defeat in Northern Ireland would be a defeat indeed.

The referendum vote will be honoured and we will come out of the EU next spring

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Diane Abbott (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.