16.1897-98, 1. Bd.(1898), H. 10, S. 300-306, 304 library.fes.de http://library.fes.de/cgi-bin/neuzeit.pl?id=07.02837&dok=1897-98a&f=189798a_0300&l=189798a_0306&c=189798a_0304
(Original engl.: "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 for the goods produced in factory and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists." - zitiert bei John Strachey: The End of Empire (1959) p. 146.
Stracheys Version entspricht bis auf eine minimale Abweichung ("for settling" statt "to settle") der Version, in der die englische Ausgabe von Lenins Der Imperialismus als höchstes Stadium des Kapitalismus ( Kap. VI deutsch http://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/lenin/1917/imp/kapitel6.htm) das Zitat wiedergibt: marxists.org http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch06.htm.)
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Cecil Rhodes
Geburtstag: 5. Juli 1853
Todesdatum: 26. März 1902
Cecil John Rhodes war ein britischer Unternehmer und Politiker.
In der Hochphase des Imperialismus war er einer der führenden Akteure des Wettlaufs um Afrika. Die von ihm für das Britische Weltreich erworbenen Kolonien wurden nach ihm Nordrhodesien und Südrhodesien genannt. Letztere wurde der international nicht anerkannte Staat Rhodesien, heute Simbabwe. Rhodes sah die Briten als „erste Rasse der Welt“ an und träumte von einer Wiedervereinigung der anglo-amerikanischen Welt unter einer gemeinsamen, imperialen Regierung. Wikipedia
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„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.