War Quote by Isabel Wilkerson

“The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.”

— Mary Deasy

“Their bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and then in the bitter settlements of England’s…

— James Webb

“The Irish were poor, but not enslaved. He had come here to hack away at the ropes that held American slavery in place. Sometimes…

— Colum McCann

“Such brutishness was beyond the English capacity for tolerance. Especially when the vulgarians in question occupied such lovely lands. So, as they had for…

— David E. Stannard

“Interestingly, some of the worst anti-Irish discrimination came from the Scotch-Irish, who wanted to make clear that they were a different group from the…

— Ryan Hackney

“...there was always hunger in Ireland. She was a country that liked to be hurt. The Irish heaped coals of fire upon their own…

— Colum McCann

“There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.”

— Rhian J. Martin

The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish…

— James Connolly

“Anger is the fuel of resentment which can burn for a lifetime.”

— Debasish Mridha

“[on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.”

— M. Edward McNally

“The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans. That experience should be part of every…

— Historica Press

“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by…

— Mark Twain