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I've been wading in shit for three months to allow others to indulge their conscience [on the EEC].

— Harold Wilson Leader of the Opposition (1970)

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

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This party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

I have always said about Tony [Benn] that he immatures with age.

Overseas anti-democratic forces have conspired for years to undermine the political position of individuals and parties who have opposed apartheid.

We cannot accept that this is a little local matter within the control of South Africa's internal affairs. Oppression, apartheid, and racialism—those are crimes against humanity as a whole.

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