But, in the long history of colonial cruelties, his speeches against Hastings and the East India Company were perhaps the first modern instance where the sufferings inflicted upon an occupied people were held up in the capital of the empire and regarded as worthy of compassion, and punishment.
In November 1938 trade policy measures were taken against Germany, and in December 1938 the British Colonial Secretary made a speech in which a "no" was put to anv revision of the colonial question.
Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, has praised an opposition politician who called for Britain to make reparations to India for the damage done during 200 years of colonial rule in a speech at Oxford University.
A few blocks from the site of Obama's speech in colonial Old Havana, Maria Castro and Laritza Mojenas waved giant Cuban and American flags and led dozens of neighbors in joyous chants, cheering for the American leader, Castro and even his brother Fidel, their longtime leader.
Collection of primary source material including Spanish colonial edicts, journal entries, speeches, etc. Weisskoff, Richard.
Mr. Sukarno referred to the Jayabaya chronicle in a famous speech to a colonial court in 1930.
Two years later, at the capitol in Williamsburg, where he had just been seated as a member of the House of Burgesses (the lower house of the colonial legislature), he delivered a speech opposing the British Stamp Act.
Earlier this year at a speech at the colonial era-founded liberal arts school, Washington College, of which George Washington was a founding member of its Board of Visitors, Gilchrest said with regard to the possibility (then) of President Bush bombing Iran, he would "personally go down to the floor of the House of Representatives and file articles of impeachment himself".
And Virginia House Speaker Kirk Cox (R-Colonial Heights) made a dramatic floor speech citing Bible verses to vow to fight against abortion.
And - following the closure of an Iraqi newspaper for criticism of US occupiers - at what point could a legitimate anti-colonial discourse be classified as hate speech?
