Cecil Rhodes
Founder of the settler-colonial state of Rhodesia. A genocidal imperialist who killed millions of southern Africans for diamonds and land.[1]
Quotes
"The native is to be treated as a child and denied franchise. We must adopt a system of despotism, such as works in India, in our relations with the barbarism of South Africa."[2]
The world is nearly all parcelled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered and colonised. To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.[3]
"You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life... 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."[4][5]
"He raids and robs and slays and enslaves the Matabele and gets worlds of Charter-Christian applause for it... there he stands, to this day, upon his dizzy summit under the dome of the sky, an apparent permanency, the marvel of the time, the mystery of the age, an Archangel with wings to half the world, Satan with a tail to the other half... I admire him, I frankly confess it." - Rhodes' masonic brother Mark Twain[6]
Sources
- ↑ https://samepassage.org/how-cecil-rhodes-killed-million-of-southern-africans-for-diamonds-and-lands/
- ↑ Magubane, Bernard M. (1996). The Making of a Racist State: British Imperialism and the Union of South Africa, 1875–1910. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press. ISBN 978-0865432413.
- ↑ Quoted in The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes (1902) by William T. Stead (a compilation of Rhodes' legal will and other biographical material)
- ↑ First sentence was said by Rhodes to "Lord" George Grey; Michell, Lewis (1910). The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes 1853-1902, Volume 2. New York and London: Mitchell Kennerly. p. 178.
- ↑ For the rest: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page26.shtml
- ↑ https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/thought-for-the-day-by-mark-twain