Gladstone On Imperialism and Afghanistan

“Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him….Ten thousand Zulus slaughtered for no offense other than their attempt to defend against your artillery with their naked bodies, their hearths, their homes, their wives, and families…Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.”