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Jo Cox Quotes

1974–2016

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It bodes well for the future that young people are thinking so intently about political issues.

They are a lifeline for job hunters without their own computer, slimmers, walkers, discussers, knitters and natterers.

The priority has been offering a service and making a difference.

I didn’t really speak right or knew the right people.

We can and should do much more to help.

There is much to be proud of in the left’s internationalist past.

A new progressive internationalism (2016)

Many people don’t realise just what a valuable lifeline libraries can be.

We must put party politics to one side and focus on what really matters—the protection of Syrian civilians.

Don’t leave Syria to become a graveyard — this generation’s responsibility to the world (2015)

Every time we flounder we just embolden them further.

We nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership. Now we regret it (2016)

The civil war in Syria is the worst humanitarian tragedy of our generation and one that our government, and the world, is failing to deal with adequately.

If we can find the will I strongly believe we can still make Britain’s approach to talent a bit more X-factor (without Simon Cowell) and a bit less Downton Abbey.

Many businesses in Yorkshire want the security and stability of Britain’s continued membership of the European Union, a cause I look forward to championing passionately in this place and elsewhere.

More in Common: Devolution and Growth Across Britain (2015)

No matter what our humanitarian response is to this crisis, it will never be enough. It cannot end the conflict.

Don’t leave Syria to become a graveyard — this generation’s responsibility to the world (2015)

We owe it to everybody in our party to be honest about where we stand.

We nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership. Now we regret it (2016)

In my neck of the woods non-conformity is what we do best.

More in Common: Devolution and Growth Across Britain (2015)

The idea that a child living deep in poverty whose parents don’t have enough money for food or heating, books or basic things like school trips can ever have the same opportunities for development as a more fortunate child is patently absurd.

Having gone through that experience of being in a Cambridge college, surviving it and building myself up, meant that coming here (Westminster) was a walk in the park, and a lot of the same people are here!

Some say we need to be more patient. What we cannot, must not do is sit back and hope for the best.

We nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership. Now we regret it (2016)

The legacy of Iraq – an intervention I was wholly opposed to because it was not fundamentally about protecting civilians – still hangs over us.

A new progressive internationalism (2016)

Thanks Diane. I hope we can all agree that this debate should be about Syria not UK party politics

Attribution

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