Roger Casement (Irish Patriot): When LOYALTY to one's own people is held to be a CRIME

Roger Casement Speech (1916) against the subjugation of Ireland by England. "Loyalty is a sentiment, not a law. It rests on love, not on restraint. The government of Ireland by England rests on restraint, and not on law; and since it demands no love, it can evoke no loyalty..." "Self-government is our right, a thing born in us at birth, a thing no more to be doled out to us, or withheld from us, by another people as the right to life itself - than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers, or to love our kind. It is only from the convict that these rights are withheld, for crimes committed and proven - and Ireland, that has wronged no man, has injured no land, that has sought no dominion over others - Ireland is being treated today among the nations of the world as if she were 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, 1916. He was condemned to death and hanged.
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