We have to defend the migrant workers and give them our support and demand that they have the rights that workers here have from day one, but absolutely hate the system that forces people to leave their country, leave their homes, leave their families, to go somewhere else to be exploited.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of supporting migrant workers while condemning the systems that force them to leave their homes.
Ken Loach's quote highlights the dual responsibility of society to stand up for the rights of migrant workers who seek better opportunities while also criticizing the socio-economic systems that compel individuals to abandon their home countries and families to avoid exploitation. It calls for empathy and active support for those who are often marginalized and advocates for systemic change to prevent forced migration.
In practice
In a speech addressing immigration policy, one might quote this to illustrate the need for comprehensive support for migrant families.
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest.
Film can do lots of things: It can produce alternative ideas, ask questions, just record the reality of what's happening, it can analyze what's happening. Of course, most commercial films are controlled by big corporations who have an interest in not doing those films.
A film has got to demand to be made. Otherwise - if it's just, 'Shall we? Why not?' - you shouldn't make it.
I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that.
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.
If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.
It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.
Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.
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