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.
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
The rotten apple spoils his companion.
This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.
Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you have the right to treat her exactly as you please because she didn’t adhere to your archaic views of feminine propriety is misogyny, plain and simple.
All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.
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