James Connolly Quotes

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• Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," and can…
• Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.
• Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back…
• We who hold his (Wolfe Tone) principles believe that any movement which would successfully grapple with the problem of national freedom must draw its inspiration…
• Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.
• All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying…
• Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.
• The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point…
• Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.
• State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the Gaolers, the Informers,…
• No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.
• The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour
• The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars
• Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the…
• The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question…
• Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in…
• Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against…
• If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic…
• The great appear great to us…
• We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

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