James Connolly Quotes

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

- 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

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

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

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

- James Connolly