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Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.

James Connolly

Years, Catholic, Done

James Connolly's letter to John Carstairs Matheson (January 30, 1908), as quoted in "The Connolly & religion debate" by Niall Mulholland in "Socialism Today", No. 103, www.socialismtoday.org. September 2006.

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

James Connolly

Rights, Europe, Perfect

James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.142, Pluto Press

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

Democracy, Unions, Victim

James Connolly (1915). “The re-conquest of Ireland”

We who hold his (Wolfe Tone) principles believe that any movement which would successfully grapple with the problem of national freedom must draw its inspiration not from the mouldering records of the past, but from the glowing hopes of the living present, the vast possibilities of the mighty future.

James Connolly

Believe, Inspiration, Past

James Connolly (1987). “Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism”

Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

James Connolly

Home, Orange, Sweatshops

Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.

James Connolly

Betrayal, Mean, Labour Movement

James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.275, Pluto Press

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

Inspiration, People, Literature

James Connolly (1971). “Labour in Irish History”, p.20, Lulu.com