Quotes by James Connolly

About James Connolly:

James Connolly was an Irish republican and socialist leader, aligned to syndicalism and the Industrial Workers of the World. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish immigrant parents. He left school for working life at the age of 11, but became one of the leading Marxist theorists of his day. He also took a role in Scottish and American politics. He was executed by a British firing squad because of his leadership role in the Easter Rising of 1916.
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No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

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

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

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

James Connolly

It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-...

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

Author Bio

  • NameJames Connolly
  • DescriptionIrish republican and socialist leader
  • BornJune 5, 1868
  • DiedMay 12, 1916
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionEsperantist; Politician