James Connolly Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by James Connolly:

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


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There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.
~James Connolly


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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.
~James Connolly


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/james-connolly-quotes/#4d00c793

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!
~James Connolly


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/james-connolly-quotes/#31a1a957

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
~James Connolly


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/james-connolly-quotes/#031b8cd4

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