Jose Rizal Quotes
If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.
Rizal, José. The Philippines A Century Hence. Translated by Austin Craig, Philippine Education Company, 1912, p. 62.
Churchill, out of power at that time, was outraged that the Labour government was about to grant India self-government and independence removing half of the British Empire which he revered. His passion for maintaining the empire was so extreme that it affected his usual great powers of political analysis and prediction. The Congress Party Leaders led India to become the largest democracy the world had ever known, and leaders like Nehru and Gandhi became almost as famous and remembered as was Churchill himself.
The conference to which he referred was the 1884 Berlin Conference where the European powers carved up Africa into colonial empires. He continued to attribute the difficulties of the African nations to the vestiges of colonialism over a century later. In addition to the effect of colonialism, however, it was he who after being elected popularly, established a one party autocracy, where there was never a chance thereafter to vote for anyone else. It was he who introduced Communist style socialism which ruined the Zambian economy. And it was he who tolerated the corruption that, after independence, spread throughout the country and plagues so much of Africa.
The Catholic majority was politically dominated by the Protestant minority in Ireland and the English Parliament generally sided with and supported the Protestants. O’Connell was open to Ireland being a part of the British Empire if it was the majority Catholic Ireland that was a part of the Empire.
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is tagged as the national hero (pambansang bayani) of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement, which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain.
