If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs
James ConnollyThe worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
James ConnollyWe believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.
James ConnollyJust 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 ConnollyWithout 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