Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Quotes

• I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Believe, Fighting, Alive

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• Think, think, think. It will hurt like hell at first, but you'll get used to it.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Hurt, Learning, Thinking

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• In politics, guts is all.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Political, Politics, Guts

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• I have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn't dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Thinking, Trying, Males

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• And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  War, Eugenics, People

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• Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Bridges, World, Modern

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• Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Monkeys, Halifax, Organs

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• It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  People, Promise, Cry

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• He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Brother, Uncles, Dad

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• You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Reason, Ownership, Fragmentation

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• I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  War, People, Hardship

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• And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  People, Demand, Height

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• Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Oil, Economic, Explosions

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