Name: Roy Hackett: 'Why I'm still fighting racism at 90' | BBC Ideas
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We have a saying, "You've got to be in it to change it."

To-infinitive

And that is my word, "In it to change it."

The imperative

because trying is what I did in my life, in my whole life.

I keep trying because everybody thinks I'm a no-good

and I keep trying until I become a too-good.

Great Britain was not great to its Commonwealth people

I came and I walk along the road for about ten doors

"No gypsies, no dogs, no Irish and no coloured."

and she didn't say a word, she just slammed the door.

I said to myself, "I think that's the norm here."

They thought they could do anything and get away with it.

there was a big crowd of white people standing out,

and I thought they'd come to welcome me in their midst. No.

You know what they did? They said they didn't want me there.

And I think I've just got to put up with it until something comes along.

We decided to fight anything that a black person was involved

Whilst we can obtain white labour in this city

we intend to go on engaging white labour rather than coloured labour.

In a country ruled by Britain, we drive our buses.

We drive aeroplanes, we drive helicopters, we drive trains.

Well we don't want them on there that's the main reason.

There isn't going to be enough work for the whites, let alone the blacks.

We said, "We've got to take it to the other level."

We are going to form ourselves into a group and stop the buses.

At the time, Arthur Scargill was having the miners' strike up north

"Arthur Scargill, Roy Hackett and Tony Benn

In 1965, Harold Wilson stood up in Parliament.

The battle against racialism here in Britain...

any person discriminating against another

because of politics, religion, colour, creed or disability -

you have committed a crime punishable by five months in prison

They never taught it in school that this happened here

and I said, "Why, are they ashamed of what they've done to us?"

I always tell them that we had to do that to bring you up

and if you ever fail one try another time

or try to improve what you fail on, you know, and try again.

Really because young people today, they are tomorrow's people

and we must try our best to make them be a good tomorrow's people.

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Roy Hackett: 'Why I'm still fighting racism at 90' | BBC Ideas

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