If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
– James Connolly
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
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
– James Connolly
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.