"It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind."

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The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, liberty or death.

— Malcolm X