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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.

  James Connolly

  Years, Catholic, Done

  James Connolly's letter to John Carstairs Matheson (January 30, 1908), as quoted in "The Connolly & religion debate" by Niall Mulholland in "Socialism Today", No. 103, www.socialismtoday.org. September 2006.

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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.

  James Connolly

  Believe, Inspiration, Past

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

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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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• 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.

  James Connolly

  Home, Orange, Sweatshops

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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.

  James Connolly

  Betrayal, Mean, Labour Movement

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.275, Pluto Press

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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.

  James Connolly

  Army, Effort, Flags

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.124, Pluto Press

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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

  James Connolly

  Fighting, Army, Guarantees That

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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

  Inspiration, People, Literature

  James Connolly (1971). “Labour in Irish History”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

  James Connolly

  Apology, Literature, Mouths

  James Connolly (1971). “Labour in Irish History”, p.22, Lulu.com

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