10 Quotes by Ellen Wilkinson

Individuals were all right, she said to herself, lots of them, but it was this rigid system that kept people from knowing each other. Was there another country in the world where the class barriers were so high as in England, and where it was so loudly proclaimed that none existed at all?

Oh, what can’t you men talk about love! You seem to think that any one of you is worth giving up all that a woman has lived for.

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.

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.

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

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

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

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