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.
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Intolerance has been the curse of our country.
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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…
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The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
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Comrades - We are living in momentous times.
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For years and years I have done the work I was born for.
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I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.
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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;…
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I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.
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I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.
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I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.
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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…
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Man must be associated with his fellows.
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Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.
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Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.
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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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