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Central to being a humanist, which I am, is the core understanding that doubt and criticism are essential attributes in the quest for knowledge.
- Clive Lewis
#Doubt
#I Am
#Knowledge
#Understanding
Like many black people, I initially viewed the armed forces with a degree of suspicion.
- Clive Lewis
#Black
#Degree
#Like
#People
#Suspicion
The U.K. government faces three choices to deal with carbon-heavy fossil fuels: force people to stop using them immediately; facilitate a rapid transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy; or hope business-as-usual market forces solve our problem for us.
- Clive Lewis
#Choices
#Energy
#Government
#Hope
#Three
In the U.S., requiring voters to produce photo ID in order to vote is just part of a much wider and more open system of discrimination against poor and ethnic minority voters.
- Clive Lewis
#Discrimination
#Minority
#Poor
#Vote
The 21st century has more potential than perhaps any other in our brief evolutionary history. We stand on the cusp of computing, genetic and energy generation breakthroughs that were only recently in the realm of science-fiction. A golden age of humanity is tantalisingly within our grasp.
- Clive Lewis
#Age
#Energy
#Golden
#History
#Humanity
Boris Johnson tried to prorogue parliament to get his disaster of a Brexit through, bringing hundreds of thousands out onto the streets for the 'Stop The Coup' protests, and seeing his cynical strategy overturned by the Supreme Court in the process.
- Clive Lewis
#Brexit
#Disaster
#Process
#Strategy
It's obvious the Green Industrial Revolution will challenge orthodox political and economic thinking. That requires bravery from both politicians and electorates.
- Clive Lewis
#Green
#Political
#Politicians
#Thinking
I think many of the virtues and values of the army are very similar to the virtues and values of socialism, of the Labour Party. It's about looking out for each other, it's about working as a team, it's about understanding.
- Clive Lewis
#Army
#Looking
#Socialism
#Understanding
The top-down, vertical power relationships of the past are being replaced by a more evenly distributed, bottom-up variety.
- Clive Lewis
#Being
#More
#Past
#Power
#Variety
We need to defeat not just antisemites but antisemitism.
- Clive Lewis
#Defeat
#Just
#Need
Unanimous votes are rare in parliament.
- Clive Lewis
#Parliament
#Rare
#Unanimous
#Votes
In a liberal democracy rapid, radical and fundamental economic change must benefit the many not the few, if it is to gain popular, long-term political support.
- Clive Lewis
#Change
#Democracy
#Political
#Support
We know growing technological developments in artificial intelligence, automation and big data mean that democratic socialism in the 21st century must adapt to such a rapidly changing world.
- Clive Lewis
#Automation
#Data
#Intelligence
#World
Leadership and punching above your weight doesn't necessarily always have to mean gunboat diplomacy and bombing other countries into the stone age. It can actually mean leading by example, and helping other countries.
- Clive Lewis
#Age
#Diplomacy
#Leadership
#Mean
#Stone
Many of us mistakenly believe a coup d'etat is the only kind of coup possible. But a coup doesn't always require tanks on a lawn and senior ranking military types appearing on your TV and radio declaring that democracy as you knew it, is now over.
- Clive Lewis
#Believe
#Democracy
#Possible
#Radio
#Us
In his 40s, my dad refound his youth a bit, and started going to the West Indian club in Northampton, where I'm from, where the West Indian diaspora would go to socialise on a Friday night, and have a drink and a dance to soca and the like.
- Clive Lewis
#Club
#Dad
#Dance
#Night
#Youth
Liberation and equality will never come from the top down but through organising from the ground up, and our Labour movement has a crucial role to play in fighting for it.
- Clive Lewis
#Equality
#Fighting
#Ground
#Never
#Will
Labour has a complex history with racism and internationalism. Political education about antisemitism and all forms of racism can help us reckon with that history, and ensure a socialist politics based on real equality becomes the common sense across the party.
- Clive Lewis
#Education
#Equality
#History
#Politics
E.U. law provides agency workers with the right to equal treatment, and all workers with maximum working hours. It forces governments to take environmental legislation seriously, and to protect air and water standards.
- Clive Lewis
#Air
#Environmental
#Law
#Right
#Water
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