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“There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“At one time the Irish had been forbidden by English law to educate their children, to own a horse worth more than five pounds, to play the Irish pipes, to wear the color green… the list went on and on. Most of the oppressive statutes were no longer enforced, but the shamed submission they had engendered remained.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion

“Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental…. The freedom to learn … has been bought by bitter sacrifice. And whatever we may think of the curtailment of other civil rights, we should fight to the last ditch to keep open the right to learn, the right to have examined in our schools not only what we believe, but what we do not believe; not only what our leaders say, but what the leaders of other groups and nations, and the leaders of other centuries have said. We must insist upon this to give our children the fairness of a start which will equip them with such an array of facts and such an attitude toward truth that they can have a real chance to judge what the world is and what its greater minds have thought it might be. —W.E.B. DuBois”
― Linda Darling-Hammond, The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future

“We never fully appreciate today until tomorrow.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, The Greener Shore