Quote by James T. Patterson

“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

“America may have been providentially chosen, but that was far from true for a good number of its inhabitants. The same racist ideology that…

— Kathryn Miles

“One way to see the constructed nature of reality is to notice how the definitions of different "races" change historically, by including groups at…

— Allan G. Johnson

“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

The Irish were treated horribly, even here in Boston. For example, in the late nineteenth century they were treated pretty much like African Americans.…

— Noam Chomsky

Many immigrant groups have faced hostility. The Irish did in their time. Jews did. Italians did - and now, Muslim immigrants.

— Tom Gjelten

Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic discrimination—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The Irish were regarded as shiftless and drunken; moreover, they were papists, and their fealty to Rome, it was said, meant they could never…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

“Anger rose among Irish working-class men, in particular, who couldn’t afford to buy their way out of a war they felt they had no…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“people who wanted to change America back to how it used to be. Not an America with the segregation that was part of the…

— Mike Foster

There was so much anti-Irish sentiment not just from other kids at the school I went to in Britain, but also the teachers themselves.…

— Maggie O'Farrell