Quotes by James Connolly - Page 1

The great appear great to us.
James Connolly / Political Leader
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No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.
James Connolly / Political Leader
Expression
Movement
Revolutionary
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Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.
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Alive
Apostles
Republican
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Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.
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Art
Fool
Practice
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The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars
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People
Republican
Stars
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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
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Society
Capitalist
Female
Slave
Workers
Worker
Capitalist Society
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The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour
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Causes
Ireland
Labour
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The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.
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Apology
Literature
Mouths
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There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.
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Denied
Europe
Ireland
Perfect
Rights
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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Class
Fighting
Republican
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I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time
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Army
Fighting
Guarantees That
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We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.
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Action
Believe
Normal
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The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.
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British
Ireland
Republican
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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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Government
Affair
Class
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Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.
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Catholic
Done
Years
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Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
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Democracy
Serpent
Unions
Victim
Behind
Enter
Industrial
Union
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Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.
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Country
Humanity
Political
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If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.
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Army
Effort
Flags
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Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.
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Desire
Mean
Thinking
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If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
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Evoke
Force
Graves
Prison
Republican
Spirit
Worst
Defy
Destroy
Still
Perhaps
Prisons
Raise
Strike
Thwart
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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 the festering slums of our Irish towns.
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Home
Orange
Sweatshops
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The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.
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Departure
Rallying Point
Republic
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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 moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
James Connolly / Political Leader
Conditions
Inspiration
Literature
Moral
People
Rise Above
Social Conditions
Source
Above
Rise
Derives
Level
National
Stream
Whom
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However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans.
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Ocean
Army
Independent
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We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.
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Men
Children
Long
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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 the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.
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Betrayal
Labour Movement
Mean
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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 not from the mouldering records of the past, but from the glowing hopes of the living present, the vast possibilities of the mighty future.
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Believe
Inspiration
Past
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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 its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world.
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Independence
Destiny
Self
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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 bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.
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Men
Eye
Hands
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State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the Gaolers, the Informers, and the Hangmen, all would all be Socialist functionaries, as they are State officials - but the ownership by the State of all the land and materials for labour, combined with the co-operative control by the workers of such land and materials, would be Socialism.
James Connolly / Political Leader
Army
Judging
Land
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Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won't touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and if you won't pay your rent you will be evicted same as now. But the evicting party, under command of the sheriff, will wear green uniforms and the Harp without the Crown, and the warrant turning you out on the roadside will be stamped with the arms of the Irish Republic. Now, isn't that worth fighting for?
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Class
Fighting
Party
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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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Army
Country
Mother
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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 yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, shame and degradation wrought upon the people of Ireland-yea, wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland.
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Men
Heart
Liars
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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 is a social question. The whole age-long fight of the Irish people against their oppressors resolves itself in the last analysis into a fight for the mastery of the means of life, the sources of production, in Ireland. Who would own and control the land? The people, or the invaders; and if the invaders, which set of them - the most recent swarm of land thieves, or the sons of the thieves of a former generation?
James Connolly / Political Leader
Fighting
Mean
Son
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