Enoch Powell might be an unexpected inclusion in the list, but this address to the House of Commons was nearly a decade before the “Rivers of Blood” speech. He stood before the House of Commons in July 1959 to denounce the killing of 11 rebels by security guards at the Hola detention camp in Kenya. Criticising the British government’s lack of action, Powell said that we cannot say “because he was such-and-such, therefore the consequences which would otherwise flow from his death shall not flow”.
Enoch Powell, 1959
Enoch Powell, speech on the Hola Camp in Kenya, House of Commons, July 1959.
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