The Untaught Syllabus. 1.
In Their Own Words: Where The Blood Never Dries (Or Don't Trust The English In
The Dark.).
Quotes For Peace Activists:


The quotes contained in this article are taken from two of my books: "1917 And
All That: The Untaught Syllabus - In their Own Words: A Political History Of The
Cold War 1917-1983." which has also been serialised in British and foreign
journals; and "A Radical Book Of Enlightenment For The Common Man." which is a
compilation of over 1,700 radical political quotes in subject categories.

Why place such a heavy emphasis on quotes?

Quotes have a veracity of their own, either somebody said something or they
didn't. And if enough people, with similar interests and motives and enough
power concentrated in their hands, say much the same thing, then it is more
likely that their interests will prevail.

I have found through tutoring, speaking engagements, publishing, debating and
general argument that it is more effective and revealing, especially to the
incredulous, that quotes, speaking for themselves without polemical intervention
from me, other than selection, editing and assembly, have an immediate impact
and influence on the credulity of the reader. And yes, it is extremely biased.
But when did idealistic academic or journalistic notions of being 'balanced' or
'unbiased' ever equate with veracity or reality?

I challenge those who preach a so-called 'balanced' view to come up with a
negation of what is being said.

I am happy for any of the compilation to be copied in whole or in part provided
that the full authorship of each quote is stated, and that authorship of the
compilation and any script is acknowledged; and that the work is used for the
purpose for which it is obviously intended - to inform and educate those
interested in the modern history of wars, peace, anti-racism, poverty,
imperialism, global trade and exploitation and the world debt crisis.



Where The Blood Never Dries (Or Don't Trust The English In The Dark.).



"That England that was wont to conquer others
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."

(Shakespeare.)



"What land has not seen Britain's crimson flying, the meteor of murder, but
justice the plea?"

(British folk song, 1820.)



"The sun never sets on the British Empire."

(British Colonial saying.)



"The sun never sets but the blood never dries on the British Empire."

(Ernest Jones.)



"The sun never sets on the British Empire because the Lord doesn't trust the
English in the dark."

(Indian saying.)



"England has no permanent friends; she only has permanent interests."

(Lord Palmerston.)



"If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British Red."

(Cecil Rhodes.)



"THEREFORE when I consider and weigh in my mind all these commenwealths, which
now a days any where do florish, so God help me, I can perceive nothing but a
certein conspiracy of riche men procuringe theire owne commodities under the
name and title of the commenwealth."

(Saint Thomas Moore, Lord Chancellor of England, 1516.)



"Thousands of our fellow subjects... are at this moment existing in a state of
slavery more horrid than are the victims of that hellish system, colonial
slavery... Thousands of little children... are daily compelled to labour from 6
o'clock in the morning to 7 o'clock in the evening with only - British, blush
while you read it - with only 30 minutes allowed for eating and recreation."

(Slavery in Yorkshire, Leeds Mercury, 1830.)



"As the lot of a slave depends upon the character of its master, so the convict
depends upon the temper and disposition of the settler to whom he is assigned."

(House of Commons Select Committee on Transportation, 1838.)



"Imperialism is... the endeavour of the great controllers of industry to broaden
the channel for the flow of their surplus wealth by seeking foreign markets and
foreign investments to take off the goods and capital they cannot use at home."

(English economist J.A.Hobson (1858-1940) "Imperialism.")



"Oh, where are you going to all you Big Steamers?
'We are going to fetch you your bread and your butter,
Your beef, pork and mutton, eggs, apples and cheese...
We fetch it from Melbourne, Quebec and Vancouver -
Address us at Hobart, Hong Kong and Bombay.'...
'Then what can I do for you, all you Big Steamers,
Oh, what can I do for your comfort and good?'
'Send out your big warships to watch your big waters,
That no one may stop us from bringing you food'."

(Rudyard Kipling.)



"The earth is a place on which England is found,
And you find it however you twirl the globe round;
For the spots are all red and the rest is all grey,
And that is the meaning of Empire Day."

(G.K.Chesterton.)



"Look how the whole capitalist world is stretching out long arms towards the
barbarous world and grabbing and clutching in eager competition at countries
whose inhabitants don't want them... It is for the opening of fresh markets to
take in all the fresh profit-producing wealth which is growing greater and
greater every day.. and I say this is an irresistable instinct on the part of
the capitalists, an impulse like hunger, and I believe that it can only be met
by another hunger, the hunger for freedom and fair play for all... Anything less
than that the capitalist power will brush aside."

(William Morris, May Day, 1896.)



"I do not believe that anybody who has not seen with his own eyes, can begin to
imagine the poverty in which so many of our fellow citizens of the Commonwealth
are condemned to live."

(James Griffiths, former British Colonial Secretary, Oct 1951.)



"...90 per cent of the workforce are now dependent on the sugar industry for
their survival. But with world sugar prices at an all-time low the industry has
become devastated... The problem began 100 years ago when the British arrived.
Self suffiency farming and a thriving fishing industry were replaced with
endless fields of sugar cane, exported as a cash crop... Under British rule,
food and goods the islanders had once produced for themselves were imported at
great expense from other countries. As a result the islanders became dependent
on the success of their single crop. .the sugar workers and their families still
depend on the planters for their every need. If the crop is poor they starve;
when there is no planting or picking there are no wages... But all that can be
spared is one handful of rice per child - about 150 calories. "They would be
better off throwing it in the sea," says a health expert. Children expend more
food energy than that just feeding themselves, he said. A healthy child needs
1,800 calories a day to grow... More than 60 per cent of the islanders have TB -
"the disease of poverty" - and 66 per cent of the children have malnutrition.
.there is no room at the hospital and they are turned away to die. Desperation
could boil over into revolution. "We are sitting on a social volcano which could
erupt at any time," warned the Bishop of Negros earlier this year."

(News on Sunday Sept 13 1987.)



"England has been made a pensioner of other lands for daily bread; we can
command it still, but the hour of weakness may come: then, when we ask the
nations for a loaf, they may remember that we gave them cannon balls, and pay us
back in kind."

(Chartist Ernest Jones, 1851.)



"In carrying out this work of civilisation we are fulfilling what I believe to
be our national mission, and we are finding scope for the exercise of those
faculties and qualities which have made of us a great governing race... No
doubt, in the first instance, when these conquests have been made, there has
been loss of life among the native populations, loss of still more precious
lives of those who have been sent out to bring those countries into some kind of
disciplined order, but it must be remembered that this is the condition of the
mission we have to fulfil."

(Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary, speech at a Royal Colonial Institute
dinner, March 31 1897.)



"The whole future of the stirling group and its ability to survive depend, in my
view, upon a quick and extensive development of our African resources."

(Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, House of Parliament, Nov 12
1947.)



"Western Europe cannot live by itself as an economic unit. Hence the desire for
wider integration with Africa and other overseas territories."

(British Labour Prime Minister Attlee, Houses of Parliament, Jan 23 1948.)



"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 "bread,
bread, bread", 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. i.e: in order to save the 40,000,000
inhabitants of the UK from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must aquire
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 problem. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become
imperialists."

(Millionaire financier Cecil Rhodes, 1895.)



"The only way to save our empires from the encroachment of the people is to
engage in war, and thus substitute national passions for social aspirations."

(Empress Catherine of Russia, 1729-1796.)



"The principle of acquiring new territory, on which the surplus population could
be settled, has many advantages to recommend it, especially if we take the
future as well as the present into account."

(Adolf Hitler, in Mein Kampf.)



"This war is not a war for a throne or an altar, this is a war for grain and
bread, a war for a well-laden breakfast, dinner and supper table... a war for
raw materials, for rubber, iron and ore."

(Joseph Goebbels. Munich 1943.)



"Believe me, the loss of our domination would weigh first of all on the working
classes of this country. We should see chronic misery let loose. England would
no longer be able to feed her enormous population."

(Joseph Chamberlain, British Colonial Secretary, 1895.)



"The day may come when public opinion will awake to the fact that our race has
been leavened with colour to such an extent that it calls for action. Parliament
may be urged to consider the desirability of bringing into existence in this
country legislation similar to that which has been found necessary in the Union
of South Africa."

(James Wilson, Chief Constable of South Wales, 1928.)



"The income which we derive each year from commissions and services rendered to
foreign countries is over £65 million. In addition, we have a steady revenue
from foreign investments of close on £300 million a year... That is the
explanation of the source from which we are able to defray social services at a
level incomparably higher than that of any European country or any country."

(Winston Churchill, Budget speech, April 15 1929.)



"Those who could not look beyond their personal interests should remember that
their employment and standard of living depended mainly on the existence of the
Empire."

(Daily Telegraph Oct 23 1943.)



"We are great friends with the jolly old Empire and we are going to stick to
it."

(Labour Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, January 1946.)



"I am not prepared to sacrifice the British Empire because I know that if the
British Empire fell... it would mean that the standard of life of our
constituents would fall considerably."

(Labour Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, House of Commons, Feb 21 1946.)



"His Majesty's Government must maintain a continuing interest in that area if
only because our economic and financial interests in Middle East were of vast
importance to us... If these interests were lost to us, the effect on the life
of this country would be a considerable reduction in the standard of living...
British interests in the Middle East contributed substantially not only to the
interests of the people there, but to the wage packets of the workpeople of this
country."

(Labour Foreign Secretary Bevin, House of Parliament, May 16 1947.)



"The development of primary production of all sorts in the colonial territories
and dependent areas in the Commonwealth and throughout the world is a life and
death matter for the economy of this country."

(Food Minister Mr. Strachey, House of Parliament, Jan 20 1948.)



"His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a
national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to
facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that
nothing shall be done which shall prejudice the civil and religious rights of
existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status
enjoyed by the Jews in any other country."

(Arthur Balfour, to Lord Rothschild, 1917. (The Balfour Declaration.))



"When Arthur Balfour launched his scheme for peopling Palestine with Jewish
immigrants, I am credibly informed that he did not know there were Arabs in the
country."

(Dean William Inge.)



"I am alarmed at the fact that with five Arab labourers, none of my family will
mow the lawn or drive a tractor, on the grounds that 'Mohammed will do it'. Our
treatment of the Arabs, right down to our personal dealings with workmen and
others, sends shivers up my spine. because it reminds me of our past."

(Israeli woman in a letter to Moshe Dayan, in a British television documentary,
July 1974.)



"They [white men BM] buried our babies with only their heads above the ground.
Then they had a test to see who could kick the babies' heads off the furthest.
One man clubbed a baby's head off from horseback. They then spent most of the
day raping the women; most of them were tortured to death by sticking sharp
things like spears up their vaginas until they died. They tied the men's hands
behind their backs, then cut off their penis and testicles and watched them run
around screaming until they died. I lived because I was young and pretty and one
of the men kept me for himself, but I was always tied up until I escaped into
another land to the west."

(Tasmanian woman's story in Jan Roberts "Massacre to Mining: The Colonisation of
Aboriginal Australia.")



Not a single pure blooded native Tasmanian survives today. The British wiped
them out completely.



"The fact that you and your team have made it possible for Britain to make and
store atom bombs has made the country a world power once again. American
scientists who worked with you believe that a world of wealth, luxury and
leisure beyond human dreams will be possible when atom power is properly
harnessed for our welfare."

(Australian newspaper Daily Graphic open letter to Lord William Penney, in
charge of British nuclear testing in Australia, October 14 1952.)



"Extensive areas of Australia have been contaminated."

(Dr. Hedley Marston, investigating contamination from British nuclear bomb
testing in Australia.)



"During the two and a half years I was there I would have seen 400 to 500
Aborigines in contaminated areas. Occasionally we would bring them in for
decontamination. Other times we just shooed them off like rabbits."

(Patrick Connolly, RAF officer during British nuclear bomb testing in Australia;
after which he was threatened by the British Special Branch. )



"There was this bang, really loud. black smoke came rolling through the trees
and above the trees and passed right over us. I don't know how many days after
that, but most of the people became sick. some people died. I got sick. I could
see the tracks and could still track animals, but it wasn't any good. I went
blind then. that's a mystery to ordinary people. I think only the government
people know. They wanted to make a weapon. they worried about some other
countries; so they come over to Australia. they just wanted to make something
big and powerful and blow somebody up."

(Yami Lester, Australian Aborigine, British television documentary, May 21
1985.)



"At the white man's school, what are the children taught?
Are they told of the battles our people fought?
Are they told how our people died?
Are they told how our people cried?
Australia's true history is never read,
But the black man keeps it in his head."

(Australian Aborigine newspaper Bunji, 1971.)



British school and college history, economics, sociology and business studies
syllabus teaching and books do not contain any of this information.

All the material and information I have presented here is readily available to
historians, writers, journalists, teachers, educators and syllabus publishers.
Although I have spent many hundreds of hours gathering it all together, I did
not have to look very far to find any of it.

When as a trainee history lecturer, it was suggested I take the class on a trip
to the Tower of London and then set them an essay on what life was like for a
soldier in King Charles' Army centuries ago. Very useful knowledge that! A
sociology of the past perhaps? But certainly not history in its most important
sense; unless history is to mean anything old or 'interesting' that you can do
in evening classes, like antiques, flower arranging or basket weaving. When
instead I taught real history, learning from the past in order to change the
future, the collective life-experience of humanity, I was got rid of. The head
of the history department complained that the students had remarked that I made
them think; which the head of history had probably never done in a lifetime of
teaching. I ended up washing and cleaning and emptying human surgical waste in a
hospital.

Unless teachers learn to be brave and intellectually honest (difficult when they
have a mortgage and bills to pay), future historical, social and economic
education and popular 'knowledge' will also not refer to the US or British
history and continuing complicity in global plunder, exploitation, domination
and control, wars of aggrandisement and acquisition, causing the deaths and
devastation of the homes and lands of millions of people - the thousands of
children under the age of two who will die tonight through simple lack of clean
water, medicine and education - the untold millions of unnecessary deaths among
the overwhelming majority of humanity on this incredibly rich and abundant and
ultimately sustainable earth.



Quotes from Brian Mitchell. Evolution. .



The Untaught Syllabus. 1.

In Their Own Words: Where The Blood Never Dries (Or Don't Trust The English In
The Dark.).

Quotes For Peace Activists:



"The most remarkable thing about the world is that you can understand it."
(Einstein.)


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