Racism Quote by Ryan Hackney

“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people”

— Jan Morris

“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.”

— Matthew Quick

“Well, they may not be civilized, but they are certainly confident--and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.”

— Thomas Cahill

“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

“I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at…

— James Joyce

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

— Samuel Johnson

“You were born here. You and your children will have American stories, and they’ll be better than any sorrowful Irish tales. At the end,…

— Susan Denning

“Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.”

— Emily Lawless

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras

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

“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

“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