“They do not know any religion, and I believe they could easily be converted to Christianity, for they are very intelligent.”— Christopher Columbus, eada.lib.umd.edu
“I wanted to conquer Rhodesia because I truly believe that Africa would be happier, richer and safer as part of the British Empire. People say that this empire-building was all about ‘taking’ and ‘stealing’: but life in Rhodesia was very good – even for the people we conquered.”— Cecil Rhodes, amazon.com
“People say I ‘stole’ gold and diamonds from Africa – but before I got there no one seemed to show interest in these natural resources. Besides, every single rock and nugget of gold I took out of the ground I had a legal right to: I bought the land from the colonial government – and, remember, I also…”— Cecil Rhodes, amazon.com
“When I left England for the first time in 1871 much of the world had already been colonised by Britain: Australia in 1770; India in 1757, and Canada in 1763. South Africa, however, was only partly controlled by Britain, and I saw this as a place where I might become as famous as Captain Cook, Robert…”— Cecil Rhodes, amazon.com
“I wish these history teachers would be more accurate! I did not ‘conquer South Africa’ – I conquered the land to the north of the present country of South Africa: a place that was named, in my honour, Rhodesia.”— Cecil Rhodes, amazon.com
“Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world’s surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could. I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the…”— Cecil Rhodes, archive.org
“I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-S…”— Cecil Rhodes, pages.uoregon.edu
“I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race...If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...”— Cecil Rhodes, en.wikiquote.org
“In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.”— Cecil Rhodes, en.wikiquote.org
“To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands where t…”— Cecil Rhodes, en.wikiquote.org
“Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.”— Joseph Stalin, marxists.org
“What’s really misleading about neoliberal analysis of globalized capitalism is the idea everything works out because conditions for many are gradually improving. For any criticism you have of exploitation and imperialism, they have a chart showing gradual improvement in some communities. Without mor…”— comcastkills, comcastkills.tumblr.com
“American propaganda works so well that we still have people out here thinking it was totally fine and justified that the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese civilians, killing well over 100,000 innocent people. It works so well that, even though the United States is the only country t…”— kropotkhristian, kropotkhristian.tumblr.com
“Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limitations to its economic expansion.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com