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Barbara Castle Quotes

British - Politician | October 6, 1910 - May 3, 2002

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

War People Thought Remember Hardship

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

People Law Test Poor Welfare Relief

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

Health Service Us Ideals Those Were

In politics, guts is all.

And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

School Powerful Choice Down Go Stay

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

People Dawn Grow Heights Will

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

War People Me Socialism Talk Always

Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.

Government Problems Policy Out Carry

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

Price Oil Mess Economic Because

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.

Brother Uncle Down Go Boy Mining

I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

Remember Meeting Room Big Trade

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

Fighting Philosophy You Bad Economy

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