Ellen Wilkinson Quotations

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.