Quote#Love
The British Empire is not a thing to love or to be proud of, but a…
Quote byWilliam Morris · 1834–1896
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech at the International Workers Congresses of Paris, 1889. Quoted in How I Became A Socialist, edited by Owen Holland, Verso Books, London, 2020 (p. 166)..
English (original)
The British Empire is not a thing to love or to be proud of, but a disgrace and a nuisance, as a domination compounded of fraud, injustice and violence to be scorned by all honest men wherever possible.
— William Morris
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