Arrested Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.

— Edward Augustus Freeman

“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

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that…

— Thomas Francis Meagher

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad…

— Theodore Dreiser

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

— William Allingham

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

— Henry David Thoreau

There are three states of legality in Irish law. There is all this stuff which comes under That's grand, then it moves into Ah…

— Dara O Briain

I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken of. All…

— Ulysses S. Grant

The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.

— Roddy Doyle

I've always honestly and openly said I believe in a united Ireland, but the point was to try and get to a united Ireland…

— John McDonnell

The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it.

— Sidney Littlewood

“If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion…

— Pádraig Pearse