Cecil Rhodes

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“Equal rights for all civilized men south of the Zambesi.”
— Gordon Le Sueur, Cecil Rhodes the Man and His Work (1913: 2009), pg. 76
“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.
“You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.”
— said by Rhodes to Lord Grey.
“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, , p. 207

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