Roger Casement

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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 than the right to life itself-than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers, or to love our kind.

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Casement, Roger. King's Bench. R vs Casement [1017] KB 98, 134. 29 June 1916.

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Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labors... Then surely it is braver, a saner and truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

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Casement, Roger. King's Bench. R vs Casement [1017] KB 98, 134. 29 June 1916.

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