Cecil Rhodes: His Political Life and Speeches, 1881-1900Chapman and Hall, limited, 1900 - 864 страница |
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Страница 365 - I have made up my mind that there must be class legislation, that there must be Pass Laws and Peace Preservation Acts, and that we have to treat natives, where they are in a state of barbarism, in a different way to ourselves. We are to be lords over them.
Страница 157 - I will lay down my own policy on this native question. Either you have to receive them on an equal footing as citizens, or to call them a subject race. I have made up my mind that there must be class legislation, that there must be Pass Laws...
Страница 626 - ... also found out that other people are taking their share of the world, and enforcing hostile tariffs. The people of England are finding out that "trade follows the flag," and they have all become Imperialists.
Страница xxxi - There are three competing influences at work in South Africa. They are Colonialism, Republicanism, and Imperialism. As to the last, it is a diminishing quantity, there being now no longer any permanent place in the future of South Africa for direct imperial rule on any large scale.
Страница 52 - I have my own views as to the future of South Africa, and I believe in a United States of South Africa, but as a portion of the British Empire I
Страница 64 - We want to get rid of the Imperial factor in this question, and to deal with it ourselves, jointly with the Transvaal.
Страница 380 - We have to face the question, and it must be brought home to them that in the future nine-tenths of them will have to spend their lives in daily labour, in physical work, in manual labour.
Страница xxxi - Natal soon likely to attain that status, with the independent Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, and with Germany on the West Coast and Portugal on the East, the idea of the permanent presence of the Imperial factor in the interior ... of a South African India in the Kalahari ... is simply an absurdity
Страница 241 - I have to forfeit my flag, what have I left? If you take away my flag, you take away everything.
Страница 463 - There are certain stages through which society must pass in its onward march from barbarism to civilization. Now one of these stages has always been some form or other of despotism, such as feudalism or servitude, or a despotic paternal government ; and we have every reason to believe that it is not possible for humanity to leap over this transition epoch, and pass at once from pure savagery...