James Larkin Quotes

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• There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
• Intolerance has been the curse of our country.
• The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying…
• The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
• No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and…
• A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in…
• Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and…
• Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
• Comrades - We are living in momentous times.
• For years and years I have done the work I was born for.
• I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.
• I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people;…
• I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.
• I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.
• I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.
• It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of…
• Man must be associated with his fellows.
• Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.
• Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.
• The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination…

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