20 Jo Cox Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jo Cox

British Politician

Born: Jun 22, 1974

Died: Jun 16, 2016

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Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing? Jo Cox

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It is time to give city and county regions the powers and resources they need to promote growth, and I will happily work with all of those who are genuinely committed to building an economic powerhouse in the north. Jo Cox

Yorkshire folk are not fools: talk about devolving power to cities and regions, while simultaneously stripping them of the resources to deliver and subjecting northern councils such as Kirklees to the harshest of cuts, is not compatible with a worthy commitment to building a northern powerhouse to drive growth and prosperity. Jo Cox

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Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant. Jo Cox

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I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames. Jo Cox

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I have long argued that ISIS and Assad are not separate problems to be chosen between, but are action and reaction, cause and symptom, chicken and egg: impossible to untangle no matter how much we might like to. Jo Cox

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My summer jobs for three years were going to work in my dad's factory and earn a bit of pocket money. I absolutely loved it, and I think I learnt more there than I did at Cambridge, actually, in terms of how hard work is and how tough it is finding a job, keeping a job, managing a job and family and commitments outside of work. Jo Cox

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Da'esh and Assad are not separate problems. Jo Cox

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While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us. Jo Cox

Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages. Jo Cox

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In Afghanistan, I was talking to Afghan elders who were world-weary of a lack of sustained attention from their own government and from the international community to stop problems early. Jo Cox

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I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered. Jo Cox

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When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in. Jo Cox

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We cannot allow voters to fall for the spin that a vote to leave is the only way to deal with concerns about immigration. We can do far more to address both the level and impact of immigration while remaining in the E.U. Jo Cox

Brexit doesn't guarantee that migration will come down. Jo Cox

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I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty and with the NSPCC and Save the Children. But I had worked for ten years with Oxfam. Jo Cox

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