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John Boyle O'Reilly
Irish
Poet
Born:
Jun 28
,
1844
Died:
Aug 10
,
1890
Burden
Free
People
Value
Will
Women
It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.
John Boyle O'Reilly
People
Liberty
Independence
Aim
Air
Could
Individual
Individual Liberty
Aristocracy
Always
Been
Same
Common
Common People
Breathe
Lower
Royalty
The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
John Boyle O'Reilly
Word
Right Word
Rarity
Spoken
Precious
Right
Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.
John Boyle O'Reilly
Politics
Time
You
Man
Justice
Change
Inferiority
Will
Black
Men
Example
Long
White
Skin
Illustration
Unjust
Mark
Out
Must
Steal
Conceited
Qualities
Opinion
Equity
Legislate
Cannot
Social
Them
Prejudiced
Ignorant
Teaching
Based
All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.
John Boyle O'Reilly
Best
Good
Worth
Value
Satisfied
Every
Out
Pluck
Seeing
Force
Readiness
Boxing
Contest
Witnessed
Gloves
Foresight
Quickness
Precision
Endurance
Rough
Soft
No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.
John Boyle O'Reilly
Integrity
Humble
Burden
Free
White
Press
High
Purpose
Writer
However
His
Keeping
In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland for nine tenths of a century, will be repealed.
John Boyle O'Reilly
Will
Stage
Predict
Nine
Nine-Tenths
Shall
Arrived
Question
Ireland
Irish
Legislative
Cursed
Which
Century
Then
England
Union
Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.
John Boyle O'Reilly
Training
Discipline
Value
Men
Young
Manly
Evils
Unavoidable
Remains
Attending
Putting
Development
Exercise
Altogether
Boxing
Boy
Inestimable
Young Men
Aside
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.
John Boyle O'Reilly
Woman
Unjust
Unreasonable
Proposition
Masculinity
Reduce
Femininity
Hard
Even
Suffrage
Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.
John Boyle O'Reilly
Property
Rights
Women
Law
Voting
Fighting
Guarded
Ought
Stated
Labor
Represent
Etc
Fully
Profession
Population
Roughly