"If you remove the English Army tomorrow and……" — James Connolly
"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 your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs"
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James Connolly
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29 Quotes by James Connolly
James Connolly has 29 quotes on this site.
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Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and…
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I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but…
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Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.
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Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North…
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We who hold his (Wolfe Tone) principles believe that any movement which would successfully grapple with the problem of national…
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Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.
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All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes,…
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Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.
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The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven…
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Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.
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State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the…
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No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.
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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
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