“When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.” WayYearsFoundFatherYears AgoEnglandBritishKenya Author:Louis Leakey
“In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.” YearsHumansTwoTodayHuman BeingsModernHundredYears AgoDeterminationAccountsSlaveNotesBritishWideShipsBordersFierceGlobesTraveledVividSessionCrossingsDealerServitudeModern DayHuman TraffickingBargainingTraffickingAbolitionistBrothelsSkinnerSlave Ships Author:Adam Hochschild
“When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages also.Who can swear that among the naked British barbarians sent to Rome to be stared at more than 1500 years ago, the ancestor of Bacon might not have been found?--Why, among the very Thugs of India, or the bloody Dyaks of Borneo, exists the germ of all that is intellectually elevated and grand. We are all of us--Anglo-Saxons, Dyaks and Indians--sprung from one head and made in one image.” ShouldYearsHas BeensMadeMightRememberFoundCivilizationYears AgoIndiaBritishToleranceNakedRomeAncestorSwearBloodySavagesBarbariansGermsBarbarismThugSprungAnglo SaxonBorneo Author:Herman Melville
“The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.” YearsCountryLeftCenturyYears AgoBritishGenocideSeventiesMaoButtocksBrezhnevMugabeGood CountryJosef Stalin Author:Frederick Forsyth
“Helen Rosevere was a British medical missionary in the Congo years ago during an uprising. Her faith was strong and her trust was confident, yet she was raped and assaulted and treated brutally. Commenting later, she said, "I must ask myself a question as if it came directly from the Lord, 'Can you thank Me for trusting you with this experience even if I never tell you why?'" What a profound thought. God has trusted each of us with our own set of unfair circumstances and unexplained experiences to deal with. Can we still trust in Him even if He never tells us why?” IfsYearsSaidStillsAsksStrongDealsLordCircumstancesYears AgoProfoundBritishMedicalTreatedMissionaryTrustedUnfairCongoUprisingHelenUnexplainedTrusting YouProfound Thoughts Author:Charles R. Swindoll
“If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.” PeopleIfsShouldYearsUsedYears AgoBritishOffenseLoving You Author:Mick Jagger
“Just a few years ago India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were one country. Actually, we were many countries if you count the princely states.... Then the British drew a line, and now we're three countries, two of them pointing nukes at each other - the radical Hindu bomb and the radical Muslim bomb.” IfsYearsTwoCountryStatesThreeLinesYears AgoIndiaBritishRadicalBombsPakistanPointingBangladeshNukesIndia Pakistan Author:Arundhati Roy
“Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.” ThinkingNeedsYearsLooksSaidWholeCultureFeltYears AgoBritishDetachedBonus Author:Iain Duncan Smith