Enoch Powell
Enoch Powell (16 juni 1912 – 8 februar 1998), engelsk politiker.
'Rivers of Blood'-talen
[rediger]- "In this country in fifteen or twenty years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man." I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation?
- We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
- As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."
- Allusjon til Virgil, Aeneiden, bok 6, l. 86: "Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno."
