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James Larkin
January 21, 1875 - January 30, 1947
Nationality: Irish
Category: Activist
Subcategory: Irish Activist

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

   

Man must be associated with his fellows.

   

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

   

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

   

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.

   

Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

   

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.

   

Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.

   

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.

   

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.

   

We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

   

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.

   

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.

   

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

   

Comrades - We are living in momentous times.

   

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

   

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.

   

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

   

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.

   

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.

   

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