Tommy Douglas: Believer

Tommy Douglas was Scottish-born Canadian politician. Explore interesting quotes on believer.

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“I went around to the little schoolhouses, talking like a professor, explaining our platform. We were lucky if the collection gave us enough for gas to get to the next place. We encouraged questions, and people asked us if it was true we were going to take their farms, like the Soviets in Russia, and did we believe in God.”

On his earliest political campaigning, quoted in Tommy Douglas (1983) by Doris French Shackleton, p. 68.

“We agree with the statement contained in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, written by Pope Leo XIII, that "anything which dominates the life of the community should be owned by the community." That is the basis upon which we believe there should be government ownership of monopolistic enterprises.”

Budget Debate, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, March 22, 1943.

“We believe that no nation can survive politically free but economically enslaved.”

Budget Debate, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, March 22, 1943.

“I am proud that my daughter believes, as I do, that hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans”

Ottawa Journal, 5 October 1969.