“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
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 .
“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
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.
“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.
[The Story of Africa, http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page26.shtml, BBC World Service, 2009-06-13]
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)
1877 will, quoted in Cecil Rhodes by John Flint
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".
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]
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
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.