State Unity Quotes



The Catholic majority was politically dominated by the Protestant minority in Ireland and the English Parliament generally sided with and supported the Protestants. O’Connell was open to Ireland being a part of the British Empire if it was the majority Catholic Ireland that was a part of the Empire.


Throughout history Lithuania has been a football fought over by Poland and Russia both of which claimed a unity of peoples but in actuality discriminated against Lithuania in resource allocation and social and intellectual relations. Throughout, many Lithuanians insisted that they have a separate language and culture and fought for independence which finally arrived after the Cold War. See {640106} for another quotation in this so called union. The fusion of the two territories made great sense to the King, but little to the Poles and Lithuanians who each saw themselves as a very different people and wanted little to so with the other.