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in 1895, cecil rhodes was serving as prime minister of
the cape colony in africa,
you can infer that he wanted to
this quotation shows
his
toward imperialism and
colonialism
background information cecil rhodes was a south
african businessman born in great britain. he served as
governor of britain's cape colony and founded one of
the world's largest diamond mining companies,
i was in the east end of london yesterday and attended a
meeting of the unemployed, i listened to the wild
speeches, which were just a cry for "brendi breadt" and
on my way home i pondered over the scene and i became
more than ever convinced of the importance of
imperialism, my cherished idea is a solution for the social
problem, ie, in order to save the united kingdom
from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must
acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to
provide new markets for the goods produced by them in
the factories and mines. the empire, as i have always
said, is a bread and butter question. if you want to avoid
civil war, you must become
--cecil rhodes,
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