Frasi di Cecil Rhodes

Cecil John Rhodes è stato un imprenditore e politico britannico, celebre per il ruolo che ebbe nell'evoluzione storica dell'Africa coloniale.

Rhodes fu un abile uomo d'affari, e costruì la sua enorme fortuna sfruttando le ricchezze naturali dell'Africa meridionale. La sua sete di ricchezza è ben rappresentata da una sua celebre frase: "tutte quelle stelle.. quegli immensi mondi che restano fuori dalla nostra portata. Se potessi, annetterei altri pianeti" .

A lui fu intitolata la colonia britannica della Rhodesia .



✵ 5. Luglio 1853 – 26. Marzo 1902
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Cecil Rhodes frasi celebri

“Il colonialismo è filantropia più il 5 percento.”

Origine: Citato in Aaron Eske, Le strade che portano a casa, traduzione di Sara Puggioni, Piemme, Milano, 2011, p. 121 https://books.google.it/books?id=80TVx1HPutoC&pg=PA121. ISBN 88-566-1438-3

“L'impero – io l'ho sempre detto – è una questione di stomaco. Se non si vuole la guerra civile, occorre diventare imperialisti.”

Origine: Da Die Neue Zeit, XVI, 1898, 1, p. 304; citato in Lenin, L'imperialismo fase suprema del capitalismo, Lotta comunista, Milano, 2002, p. 98.

Cecil Rhodes: Frasi in inglese

“Equal rights for all civilized men south of the Zambesi.”

Gordon Le Sueur, Cecil Rhodes the Man and His Work http://books.google.com/books?id=96AYdAqncoYC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=%22equal+rights+for+all+civilized+men%22&source=bl&ots=m1cSqKQE0h&sig=r1b3XeSqYuVKlAfdmkBZ32mP3ps&hl=en&ei=97xgS6r1CJTatgO2u8XGCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CCMQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=%22equal%20rights%20for%20all%20civilized%20men%22&f=false (2009), pg. 76
Le Sueur states that Rhodes originally said, c. 1893: "Equal rights every white man south of the Zambesi", as reported in the press, and he later "clarified" it.

“Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.”

Attributed by J. C. Johari, Voices of Indian Freedom Movement (1993), Anmol Publications, ISBN 9788171582259, p. 207
Attributed

“… you are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.”

said by Rhodes to Lord Grey. [Lewis, Michell, The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes 1853-1902, Volume 2, 178, New York and London, Mitchell Kennerly, 1910, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t5m90j14v?urlappend=%3Bseq=194]
Often quoted in variant forms such as "To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life".

“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.”

Quoted in Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch06.htm#bkV22P257F01.
[William Simpson, Martin Desmond Jones, Europe, 1783-1914. p. 237, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AGxlZbfJdy8C&pg=PA237&lpg=PA237&dq=million, 2000, Europe, 1783-1914, Routledge, 2009-06-13]

“We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.”

Teaching a “Racist and Outdated Text”: A Journey into my own Heart of Darkness, Wong, Melody, Western Washington University, 2008-09-20 http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal/v003n001/a025.shtml,
[Britten, Sarah, The Art of the South African Insult, 30° South Publishers, 2006, 167, 9781920143053]
Disputed

“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.”

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.

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