Uncivilized Quotes
Czar Nicholas II was a relative of Queen Victoria and her uncle, King Leopold. They were both skilled and popular monarchs. In contrast, the Czar was not only hated by his own people, but as this private letter shows, was not thought very well of by his own more accomplished relatives and fellow monarchs. Nicholas II was so bad, that he was the last of the Czars as the Communist Russian Revolution forced him to abdicate and then he was murdered.
By the beginning of the 16th century, the Christian Islamophobia and prejudice had spread to each country of Europe. As this quotation illustrates, it even was institutionalized to language.
1st Earl of Oxford. While clearly a gross overgeneralization, the Austrian leadership were in the process of making some very stupid policy decisions that led to WW I and the destruction and breakup of their empire.
Johnson was probably the most racist president in American History. Also the most ignorant. He is the only President to have never attended a single day of school.
Most people would assume that he was referring to the Native Americans but to many early Americans Catholics were more heathen than ignorant Indians.
In 1910 a consortium of American and European banks was formed to loan the Chinese government money for development. A preliminary agreement was made, but the Chinese backed away, responding to the growing domestic unrest at foreigners controlling too much of China's economy. The consortium appealed to the Western governments' foreign offices to pressure the Chinese; the American ambassador was instructed to demand that the Chinese conclude the loan negotiation. He described what he was instructed to do as:. The loan was concluded and led to protests and violence in China.
Characterizing President Harry S Truman:
