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Tommy Douglas Biography

Thomas Clement Douglas PC CC SOM (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Canadian democratic socialist politician and Baptist minister. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He left federal politics to become the Saskatchewan CCF's leader and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961. His government was the first democratic socialist government in North America, and it introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program.

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

Believe, Economically, Free, Nations, Survive

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.

Men, Money, Political, Promise, Protect

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

Bleeding, Heads, Heart, Hearts, Politics

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

Ability, Boys, Class, Parents, Raise, Should Have

The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.

Competition, Greed, Home, Reap, Ruthless, Selfishness

It has been said that a country’s greatness can be measured by what it does for its unfortunates. By that criterion Canada certainly does not stand in the forefront of the nations of the world although there are signs that we are becoming conscious of our deficiencies and are determined to atone for lost time.

Becoming, Country, Determined, Greatness, Signs, World

At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel.

Away, Crucifixion, Friday, Nickel, Wall, War

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

Canada, Feeds, Humorous, Inspirational, Maritimes, Ontario

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

Dream, Jewels, Like, People, See, World

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Air, Burrow, Men, Ocean, Swim

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

Freedom, People, Setting, Spy, Way

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

Buildings, Mind, Pigeons, Seen, Want

Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

Class, Economic, Fascism, Order, People, Special

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.

Believe, Gave, Platform, Professor, Russia, Talking

I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall there were children going to school in Saskatchewan with only sacking wrapped around their feet. We have gone into homes and found mothers and children lying on piles of bedding in the corner; they did not have the proper bedding equipment or the proper clothing to meet the rigours of a very cold winter.

Bedding, Children, Fall, Lying, Mother

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.

Dove, Hawks, Ottawa, Parrots, Washington

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

Government, Liberal, Political, Should Have, Trouble, Wishbone

Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.

Afraid, Book, Hold, Ideas, Stand, Views

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

Believe, Believes, Children, Daughter, Proud

We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.

Aspirations, Becomes, Dream, Dull, People, Vision

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