“"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? The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so.”

—  Enoch Powell

the first sentence was Powell's own quotation from one of his constituents.
The 'Rivers of Blood' speech

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British politician 1912–1998

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