Manuel Fraga Iribarne Quotes
Legalizing the Basque flag will be done over my dead body
The Basques of Catalonia suffered much butchery at the hands of Don Manuel’s Fascists in the Spanish Civil war. The Basques were persecuted where they were not even allowed to teach or speak their own language. Cultural independence, if not autonomy was and is the goal of many Catalonians. By the end of the 20th century they were flying their own flag—so hated by the Fascists and conservatives and had cultural freedom, much to the distress of Don Manual and his conservative allies.
Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 1922–2012, Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, Interior Minister & Minister for Information and Tourism, Ambassador to England, Quoted in “ Frases que reflejan el recorrido de Manuel Fraga”, Gara, January 16, 2012
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Magh Bahul Ekadashi. To this day Golwalker is one of the most revered of the Hindu nationalists. This is the kind of intolerance that Indian Muslims faced amongst the most extreme Hindu’s. The possibility that this would become a reality was one of the great motivators for partition of India on the part of the Muslims. The irony is that the Muslim nation that was created—Pakistan—follows this doctrine exactly, only they substitute Islam for the Hindu culture. With the exception of a few Muslim nations, most of Islam follows the intolerance that the Hindu extremists would have followed. Ironically, “Hindu” India still has many millions of Muslims and they are given full citizenship and more democratic freedom and rights than Muslims have in almost all Islamic countries with the exception of Turkey.
The "Rainbow Coalition" took its name from this source
He was referring to whether or not Iraq should be a Muslim state.
At the time racism and discrimination in the United States was not only rampant but legal. But change in many substrata of America was detectable and many intellectuals--writers, artists, scientists, educators, theologians, entertainers, groups who would later be called “elites” began to make themselves heard on the subject. Falkner was one whose novels had always taken an anti racist view point and now were overtly calling for political and social change.
Manuel Fraga Iribarne was a Spanish professor and politician in Francoist Spain, who was also the founder of the People's Party. Fraga was Minister of Information and Tourism between 1962 and 1969, Ambassador to the United Kingdom between 1973 and 1975, Minister of the Interior in 1975, Second Deputy Prime Minister between 1975 and 1976, President of the People's Alliance/People's Party between 1979 and 1990 and President of the Regional Government of Galicia between 1990 and 2005. He was also a Member of the Congress of Deputies and a Senator.
