Ellen Wilkinson Quotes

• Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Party, Political, Unemployment

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• Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Country, House, Might

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• Free milk will be provided in Hoxton and Shoredith, in Eton and Harrow. What more social equality can you have than that?

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Eton, Milk, Social

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• Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Government, People

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• I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Education, Scholarship, University

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• My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Mother, Sick, Poverty

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