Richard C. Lyons

“At the time of the United States’ birth, the practice of slavery was a common practice of the world. The great monarchies and empires of France and Spain, the empires of Russia and China, the pyramidal societies of the Ottomans in southeastern Europe and throughout Arabia were societies of slavery; their vestiges remain today. England, at the time of its own revolution, had held Ireland in its tyrannical grip for more than 500 years: her peasants were powerless. Any who complained or fomented a rebellious uprising were loaded aboard convict ships and sold into forced servitude at the nether ends of the earth. The Irish were “other”; they were lesser, not quite human.”
― Richard C. Lyons, The DNA of Democracy