Jose Rizal Quotes
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.
Rizal, José. The Philippines A Century Hence. Translated by Austin Craig, Philippine Education Company, 1912, p. 107.
Mobutu with Amerucan CIA and French assistance deposed Lumumba, murdered him, and seized power.
Hobson, like Mark Twain in America, was a major critic of imperialism.
He was an Army Major at the time he wrote this article. In 1966 his positive view of Britain was overwhelmed by the anti-colonial fervor that existed in much of Africa.
The violent IRA logic had always been a little tortured. At the time, the claim was that the British were not wanted in Ireland but were there only by force of arms. However, the British administration of Ireland at the time was not forceful or violent at all. Few others had the freedom and democracy of Ireland as a part of Great Britain. De Valera’s logic was that if the British in Ireland were subjected to violent, terrorist attacks, they would respond with force of arms, and thus show that they held Ireland by force. Most of the Catholics of Ireland preferred independence while most of the Protestants preferred the relationship with England.
In that year Republican President William McKinley reversed Cleveland’s policy against expansionism at the expense of independent peoples. He staved off annexation while he was president because of his views as early as 1893. See {643147}.
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.
