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“Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.”
― Michael Davitt

“It is an error to assume that the Jews have not thriven anywhere in agricultural industry.”
― Michael Davitt, Within the Pale: The Story of Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia

“I have come from a journey through the Jewish Pale, a convinced believer in the remedy of Zionism…Other countries cannot be expected to relieve Russia of the unhappy victims of oppression and poverty. Where, then, are they to go?”
― Michael Davitt, Within the Pale: The Story of Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia

“He [the Jew] is under the obligations of citizenship, military and otherwise, without its privileges or full protection. Special taxes are imposed upon him. He is confined by law within an economic concentration camp. The legal difficulties put in the way of the full exercise of his industrial capacities are both the source of his poverty and oppression. He cannot, own land within the pale, or work it; but he must live.”
― Michael Davitt, Within the Pale: The Story of Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia

“…the authors of these coercion laws [in Russia] began to find it a serious administrative problem what to do with subjects [Jewish people] for whose systematic oppression they alone were responsible.”
― Michael Davitt, Within the Pale: The Story of Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia