James Connolly Quotes:
Ocupation: Political leader
Life: June 5, 1868 - May 12, 1916
Birthday: June 5
Death: May 12
The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question is a social question. The whole age-long fight of the Irish people against their oppressors resolves itself in the last analysis into a fight for the mastery of the means of life, the sources of production, in Ireland. Who would own and control the land? The people, or the invaders; and if the invaders, which set of them - the most recent swarm of land thieves, or the sons of the thieves of a former generation?
topic: Mean, Fighting, Son, Irishmen
