Quote by E.P. Thompson
"Change comes not from great men alone, but from the collective will of people."
More from E.P. Thompson
"The making of the English working class was the making of a people, conscious of themselves as a class."
"One cannot be a historian of the 18th century without understanding something of its social character."
"History is not something distant and abstract. It is something we live and breathe every day."
"The poor have their own culture, their own values, their own way of looking at the world."