Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Eileen Shanahan

Born: October 28, 1901
Died: January 28, 1979 (aged 77)
Bio: Eileen Shanahan was an Irish poet. Her best-known poem, The Three Children, has been republished five times since its original publication in the The Atlantic Monthly in 1929, and was included in the Oxford Book of Irish Verse.