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)
What we have now is a university town grafted onto a declining industrial city. The standard of living here is not going to be as great. (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)
I feel terrible. I'd like to get out. I'm done with the army. I want to move on. My commitment was up last December but they extended the whole division until January 31, 2007, (James Connolly)
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. (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)
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 Irelandyea, 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)