Sunday, March 16, 2014

Tony Benn and his mother

A commentator on Tony Benn: "Give him a platform and all he wanted to talk about was his mother."

It was his mother when one night reading the Bible said to him that, "kings had power and prophets were teachers".

A sentiment that remained with him all his life and greatly influenced his thought.

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