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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.

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

— Cecil Rhodes
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 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.“

— Cecil Rhodes
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)

„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

„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 the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial representation in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the disjointed members of the Empire and, finally, the foundation of so great a Power as to render wars impossible, and promote the best interests of humanity.“

— Cecil Rhodes
1877 will, quoted in Cecil Rhodes by John Flint

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

— Cecil Rhodes
said by Rhodes to Lord Grey. Often quoted in variant forms such as "To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life".

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

— Cecil Rhodes
Attributed by J. C. Johari, Voices of Indian Freedom Movement (1993), Anmol Publications, , p. 207

„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
Quoted in Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch06.htm#bkV22P257F01.