Ellen Wilkinson Quotes

Ellen Wilkinson — English Politician born on October 08, 1891, died on February 06, 1947

Ellen Cicely Wilkinson PC was a British Labour Party politician who served as Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death. As the Member of Parliament for Jarrow, she became a national figure when, in 1936, she figured prominently in the Jarrow March of the town's unemployed to London, to petition for the right to work. Although unsuccessful at the time, the march provided an iconic image for the 1930s, and helped to form post-Second World War attitudes to unemployment and social justice... (wikipedia)

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

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.

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

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.

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

Ellen Wilkinson Quotes

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