James Larkin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.
-- James Larkin

#Country #Intolerance #Curse
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
-- James Larkin

#Book #Thinking #Worship
The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.
-- James Larkin

#Acquiescence #Carrying On #Profit
The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
-- James Larkin

#Blow #Men #Broken
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
-- James Larkin

#Fighting #Men #Race
A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.
-- James Larkin

#Gains #Degrees #Satisfaction
Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.
-- James Larkin

#Cancer #Cutting #Class
Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.
-- James Larkin

#Want #Method #Workers
I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.
-- James Larkin

#Catholic #Protestants #Sectarianism
We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.
-- James Larkin

#Smile #Mistake #Funeral
We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
-- James Larkin

#Inspiration #Movement #Threshold
The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland
-- James Larkin

#Land #People #Ireland
The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.
-- James Larkin

#Determination #Class #Goal
Comrades - We are living in momentous times!
-- James Larkin

#Comrade
I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.
-- James Larkin

#Mean #People #Development
It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.
-- James Larkin

#Mean #Men #Justice
The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.
-- James Larkin

#Fate #Land #Humanity
Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.
-- James Larkin

#Home #Fighting #Hands
Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.
-- James Larkin

#Men #Russia #Men And Women
The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.
-- James Larkin

#Soul #World #Publicity
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
-- James Larkin

#Outcomes #Matter #Birth
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
-- James Larkin

#Liberty #Worship #Individual
I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.
-- James Larkin

#House #Bars #Lips
I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.
-- James Larkin

#Men #Causes #Cleaning
By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.
-- James Larkin

#Strong #Intelligent #Use

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