"I tell you, in the first instance, that Ireland is an enslaved country. A great mistake is entertained by many persons to the effect that there cannot be slavery—that no man can be a slave unless he be in chains, or subject to the lash of the planter like the negroes; but the slavery of which I speak is the slavery of the people, which consists in this, that they do not make their own laws themselves—that they do not make the laws by which they are governed, but that those laws are made by others, and I say it boldly, that a people so circumstanced are in a state of slavery."
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Robert Holmes
Robert Holmes (1765 – October 7 1859) was an Irish lawyer and nationalist. He was the brother-in-law of both Thomas Addis Emmet and Robert Emmet, Irish revolutionaries.
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