Margaret Sanger Quotes
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.
Sanger, Margaret. Woman and the New Race. Brentano's, 1920, p. 159.
Hobson, like Mark Twain in America, was a major critic of imperialism.
America had declared war on Mexico and President Polk had designs on California and other territory.
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The Japanese Government was in the control of ardent militarists intent on expanding the Japanese empire. They invaded Manchuria and had designs on China. The League of Nations was very weak, in large part because the United States had not joined when the Senate refused to ratify the treaty. So peace or war In Asia depended on the fascist, military clique that ruled Japan.
Gallatin, then an Ambassador, was opposed to administration designs on Florida. In a response Monroe told him that Florida was going to be taken anyway, but in reality it had already been done so.
Jefferson was not the only one who thought that taking Canada and driving the English out would be relatively easy as Canada was vast and the English troops were spread very thin. However, although the English had great strategic weakness, the American officers who led the Canadian effort were not very competent and made a series of terrible tactical decisions and the Canadian operation failed in a terrible fiasco.
The word, “filibusters” is a noun referring to irregular mercenaries. The term took on a more specific meaning in Parker’s day. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines the term as “Americans engaged in stirring up rebellions in Latin America in the mid-19th century.” This is the meaning in the Parker quotation.
He conquered Korea in an act of blatant aggression, but got bogged down in a complicated occupation. He died before the Chinese part of the plan could be carried out. However, ever since China, Korea and other Asian countries have distrusted Japan and her aggressive intentions and history. The horrible Japanese record of aggression and atrocities of WWII solidified that anti Japanese sentiment which still exists to some extent.
the reasons nations arm and war
The Serbs were in a conflict with the Ottoman Muslims almost 1000 years ago. However, they have never seen that war as having ended. When the Albanian Muslims were breaking from the weakened Ottoman Empire, the Serbs not only wanted to dominate Albania, but also to extract vengeance for alleged wrongs committed by Ottoman Muslims hundreds of years earlier. This attitude existed through and after the Serbian war and the Kosovo Albanian population would not live under Serbian control given the Serb war crimes and atrocities perpetrated on Muslims—not only in the historical past but even in the Serbian War. Tucovic was one of the very few Serbs who not only argued that the Serbian policy of oppression of the Muslims was not only morally wrong but counter productive from the Serbian point of view. For many Serbs, Tucovic was considered a traitor.
The Byzantine emissary had pointed out that Mehmed’s predecessors had signed a treaty agreeing to “consult” with Constantinople before building any fortified structure in the area surrounding Constantinople. Mehmed was only 19 years old at this time. His intention f building a fort was to have a platform from which to attack and capture Constantinople itself which he did 2 years later. Earlier, the Eastern Roman Empire was much stronger and the Ottoman sultans were more cautious in dealing with them. However, the various Christian factions were all feuding with each other, and Mehmed II, despite his youth, was much better organized and was a better leader than his predecessors.
Margaret Higgins Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
