Quotes from James Larkin

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

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

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.

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

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.

Man must be associated with his fellows.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

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.

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.

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 men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

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.

Comrades - We are living in momentous times.

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

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

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.