Arthur Scargill Quotes

• 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

  Direct Action, People, Important

  51 Copy quote

• 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

  Recovery, Years, Government

  10 Copy quote

• My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

  Arthur Scargill

  Father, Masters, Stills

  "The Gambia in Your Senegal" by Aingeal Clare, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2006.

  11 Copy quote

• All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

  Arthur Scargill

  Coal Miners, Underestimate, Economic

  9 Copy quote

• I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

  Arthur Scargill

  Achieve, Idealism, Idealist

  10 Copy quote

• Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

  Arthur Scargill

  Want, Fool, Strikes

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Struggle, Winning, Opportunity

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  Party, People, Gone

  17 Copy quote

• 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

  Party, Cutting, Views

  7 Copy quote

• Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

  Arthur Scargill

  Law, People, Form

  Said in evidence to House of Commons Select Committee on Employment, 2 April 1980, in 'House of Commons Paper no. 462 of Session 1979-80' p. 55

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Leadership, Party, Europe

  21 Copy quote

• I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

  Arthur Scargill

  Running, Vote, Mayors

  2000 InThe Guardian, 3 May.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Party, Giving, Support

  20 Copy quote

• 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

  Alternatives, Matter, Investment

  4 Copy quote

• There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

  Arthur Scargill

  Feelings, Unions, Size

  7 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin