Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
James LarkinHumanity 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.
James LarkinThe 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.
James LarkinThe 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.
James LarkinNo, 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.
James LarkinThe 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.
James LarkinBy God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.
James LarkinI 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.
James LarkinThere must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
James LarkinThe 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.
James LarkinWe 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.
James LarkinA 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.
James LarkinTherefore 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.
James LarkinThe men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
James LarkinWe are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
James Larkin