Winston Churchill is one of England's most beloved politicians. As the British leader during World War II, he is credited with inspiring his people with human spirit to resist Nazi Germany.
However, like all icons, there is a flip side of the hero coin. Churchill's flip side is very ironic considering he fought against the Third Reich. Churchill was a terrible racist. Look at these quotes:
I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place.
Churchill to Palestine Royal Commission, 1937
This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States)... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing.
(India is) a godless land of snobs and bores.
In a letter to his mother, 1896
I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes.
Writing as president of the Air Council, 1919
One other unflattering fact about Churchill is his views on eugenics:
The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the Feeble-Minded and Insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate.
This ironic giving Churchill's quote, "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
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