| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 57519 |
| QUOTATION: | He didn’t riot. He got on his bike and looked for work. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Norman Tebbit (b. 1931), British Conservative politician. speech, Oct. 15, 1981, Conservative Party Conference, Blackpool, England.
On his unemployed father during the Depression. Tebbit’s speech, contrasting his father’s self-help approach with the attitude of rioters in Britain during the previous summer, was received with a rousing ovation at the conference, but provoked widespread controversy in the country at a time when unemployment stood at three million. |
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