Ireland Basis

Famous quotes containing the words ireland and/or basis:

“No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

“Even upon such a basis hast thou built
A monument, whose cement hath been guilt!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)