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Roger Casement Quotes

Ireland that has wronged no man, that has injured no land, that has sought no dominion over others. Ireland is treated today among other nations of the world as if she was a convicted criminal. If it be treason to fight

Ireland that has wronged no man, that has injured no land, that has sought no dominion over others. Ireland is treated today among other nations of the world as if she was a convicted criminal. If it be treason to fight against such an unnatural fate as this, then I am proud to be a rebel and shall cling to my rebellion with the last drop of my blood.

Roger Casement
Patriotic, Fate, Pride
Sir Roger Casement (1917). “Trial of Sir Roger Casement”, Canada Law Book

Self government is our right, a thing born to us at birth a thing no more to be doled out to us by another people then the right to life itself then the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers or to love our kind.

Roger Casement
Love, Flower, Rights

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

Roger Casement
Song, Men, Thinking
Roger Casement's speech from the dock, 1916.

I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented

Roger Casement
Two, World, Macedonia

If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.

Roger Casement
Fighting, Men, Savages
Sir Roger Casement (1917). “Trial of Sir Roger Casement”, Canada Law Book

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