The Town That Was Murdered Quotes

“but the history of a town is not that of its famous men only, but the story of the tenacity of its unknown fighters in the struggle for existence”
― Ellen Wilkinson, The Town that Was Murdered

“In these days of fascism, when the workers’ unions have been smashed, and all effective means of protest and redress removed, the story of these earlier struggles cannot be dismissed as “All so long ago. Things are better now.” Wherever workers are denied their own bulwarks against tyranny, the same kind of oppression recurs; the same kind of accusation are levied by employers against the leadership created from the ranks.”
― Ellen Wilkinson, The Town that Was Murdered

“sad commentary on the decay of working class forthrightness that we now call our papers the Tribune, the Herald, the Worker, instead of a grand challenging title like “The Despots’ Plague”!”
― Ellen Wilkinson, The Town that Was Murdered

“But trade-unionism lives not only in organizations but in the hearts of men.”
― Ellen Wilkinson, The Town that Was Murdered

“A society in which the decisive decisions are invariably taken by one group, and in which those decisions are reached only by considerations of their own welfare; is not a just society.”
― Ellen Wilkinson, The Town that Was Murdered

“One cannot blame capitalists for behaving like capitalists”
― Ellen Wilkinson, The Town that Was Murdered