Carolina Nairne, née Oliphant, Lady Nairne (16 August 1766 – 26 October 1845) was a Scottish songwriter and song collector.
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“I hear ... foreigners, who would boycott an employer if he hired a colored workman, complain of wrong and oppression, of low wages and long hours, clamoring for eight-hour systems ... ah, come with me, I feel like saying, I can show you workingmen’s wrong and workingmen’s toil which, could it speak, would send up a wail that might be heard from the Potomac to the Rio Grande; and should it unite and act, would shake this country from Carolina to California.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“We’ll meet and ay be fain
In the land o’ the leal.”
—Carolina Oliphant, Barone Nairne (1766–1845)