Explore Quotes by James Larkin

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.

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.

Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.

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

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.

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.

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

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

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

Man must be associated with his fellows.

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.