Notable Social Democrats
| This section needs additional citations for verification. |
- This is an abbreviated list of well-known social democrats. For a comprehensive list, see List of social democrats
- Clement Attlee
- Obafemi Awolowo
- José Batlle y Ordóñez
- Otto Bauer
- David Ben-Gurion
- Eduard Bernstein
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- Léon Blum
- Willy Brandt
- Hjalmar Branting
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
- Vince Cable
- Job Cohen
- Brendan Corish
- Tommy Douglas
- Willem Drees
- Friedrich Ebert
- Einar Gerhardsen
- Bob Hawke
- Roy Jenkins
- Wim Kok
- Jack Layton
- David Lewis
- Wilhelm Liebknecht
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
- Vasos Lyssaridis
- Dom Mintoff
- David Owen
- Olof Palme
- Wim Schermerhorn
- Shirley Williams
- Joop den Uyl
- José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
- Vera Zasulich
- Frank P. Zeidler
Read more about this topic: Social Democracy
Famous quotes containing the words notable, social and/or democrats:
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“After school days are over, the girls ... find no natural connection between their school life and the new one on which they enter, and are apt to be aimless, if not listless, needing external stimulus, and finding it only prepared for them, it may be, in some form of social excitement. ...girls after leaving school need intellectual interests, well regulated and not encroaching on home duties.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
“In all history no class has been enfranchised without some selfish motive underlying. If to-day we could prove to Republicans or Democrats that every woman would vote for their party, we should be enfranchised.”
—Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947)