James Connolly Quotes

• 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

  James Connolly

  Mother, Country, Army

  James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”

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• The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

  James Connolly

  Stars, People, 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.

  James Connolly

  Government, Class, Affair

  James Connolly (2008). “Socialism and the Irish Rebellion: Writings from James Connolly”, Red & Black Pub

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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.

  James Connolly

  Liars, Heart, Men

  James Connolly (1987). “Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism”

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• Si nos golpeáis, encarceláis o matáis, desde nuestras prisiones o tumbas aún evocaremos un espíritu que os frustrará y, tal vez, ¡levantaremos una fuerza que os destruirá! ¡Os desafiamos! ¡Haced lo peor que podáis!

  James Connolly

  Spirit, Republican, Prison

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• The great appear great to us.

  James Connolly

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.11, Pluto Press

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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.

  James Connolly

  Mean, Thinking, Desire

  1909 Socialism Made Easy.

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• El Gobierno británico no tiene ningún derecho en Irlanda, nunca lo ha tenido y nunca podrá tenerlo.

  James Connolly

  Republican, British, Ireland

  "James Connolly: Selected Writings".

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• We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

  James Connolly

  Believe, Normal, Action

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.45, Pluto Press

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• Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

  James Connolly

  Alive, Republican, Apostles

  James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”

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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?

  James Connolly

  Party, Fighting, Class

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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

  Mean, Fighting, Son

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• The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

  James Connolly

  Female, Slave, Workers

  The Re-conquest of Ireland (1915)

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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.

  James Connolly

  Niños, Hombres, Largo

  James Connolly (1987). “Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism”

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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.

  James Connolly

  Rallying Point, Departure, Republic

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.122, Pluto Press

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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.

  James Connolly

  Ocean, Independent, Army

  James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”

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• No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

  James Connolly

  Expression, Movement, Revolutionary

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.48, Pluto Press

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• Sí, gobernar engañando, es un gran arte británico con grandes tontos irlandeses para practicar.

  James Connolly

  Art, Practice, Fool

  James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”

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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

  Army, Land, Judging

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• The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour

  James Connolly

  Causes, Ireland, Labour

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.145, Pluto Press

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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.

  James Connolly

  Country, Political, Humanity

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.59, Pluto Press

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• Bajo un sistema socialista, cada nación será el árbitro supremo de sus propios destinos, nacionales e internacionales; no será forzada a ninguna alianza contra su voluntad, sino que su independencia estará garantizada y su libertad será respetada por el interés propio ilustrado de la democracia socialista del mundo.

  James Connolly

  Destiny, Self, Independence

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.34, Pluto Press

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• Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

  James Connolly

  Fighting, Class, Republican

  James Connolly (1971). “Labour in Irish History”, p.27, Lulu.com

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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

  Democracy, Unions, Victim

  James Connolly (1915). “The re-conquest of 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, 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.

  James Connolly

  Ojo, Hombres, Manos

  James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”

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