A Quote by Betty Boothroyd

We fought big time fascists when I was knee high to a grasshopper up in Yorkshire, when I grew up I fought fascists in the West Midlands in the form of the National Front.

Betty Boothroyd

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Betty Boothroyd
British - Politician
Born: October 8, 1929

Coming of age in the 1960s, I heard the word 'fascist' all the time. College presidents were fascists; Vietnam War supporters were fascists. Policemen who tangled with protesters were fascists - on and on.

David Oshinsky

Fascists divide in two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists

Ennio Flaiano

There are two kinds of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists.

Ennio Flaiano

Sir Oswald Mosley thought his job is not just keep Britain from going to war with his beloved Germany, he saw it as his job to organize a complementary fascist movement inside the U.K. So, he formed this organization as the British Union of Fascists in `32. In 1936, they changed their name to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists

Rachel Maddow

Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do. Kaladin had cared when he fought. He’d never fought empty or cold. He fought to keep his men alive

Brandon Sanderson

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

Henry A. Wallace

The truth has to be unveiled. If the West insists, if it keeps pushing, the battles have to be fought. And they will be fought.

Andre Vltchek

I grew up swimming. Our first house in Aldridge, in the West Midlands, had a pool at the bottom of the garden.

Ellie Simmonds

I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

Chris Hedges

Democrats fought to get health insurance for more Americans. Democrats fought for a strong consumer agency so big banks can't cheat people. We fought, we won, and we improved the lives of millions of people - thank you, President Obama!

Elizabeth Warren

We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.

S. E. Hinton

I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?

Barbra Streisand

We'll never join up with the Fascists and Mussolinis of Italy.

Geert Wilders

If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.

Eugen Weber

I've fought my whole life. I've fought whoever they put in front of me. Whether it was in boxing or in the street or whatever, I've never backed down from a fight.

Cody Garbrandt

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

Floyd Abrams

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