Why should it be the lot of our people--men and women born to a birthright of freedom?
Why?
Are ye men of Ireland so craven that aliens can rule ye as they once ruled the negro ?" ("No, no!") "The African slave has been emancipated and his emancipation was through the blood and tears of the people who wronged him.

Let OUR emancipation, then, be through the blood and tears of our oppressors.

In other nations it is the Irishman who rules.

It is only in his own counthry that he is ruled.

And the debt of hathred and misery and blasted lives and dead hopes is at our door today.