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"The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions."

Home, Actions, Agitation, Class

"Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses."

Life, Agitation

"Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it."

Life, Time, Strength

"In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country."

Absence, Country, Party

"Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy."

Policy, Party, Question

"The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly."

Policy, Ideas, Party, Socialism

"The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism."

Development, Socialism, Workers

"Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other."

Politics, Class, Socialism

"If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once."

Nation, Country, Will

"A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action."

Action, Party

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"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Action, Theory, Worth

"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

Action, Job

"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."

Mark Twain, American Author

Action, Words

"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

Action, Nation, Poor, Rhetoric

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Action, Want, Will

"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Action, Actions, Man, May, Meaning

"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."

Jane Addams, American Activist

Action, Ethics, Expression

"The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Action, Past

"I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely."

Andre Agassi, American Athlete

Action, Actions, Moments, Punk, Words

"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

Action, Actions