James Connolly quotes

" 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. " # Literature # Morality # Friends and Friendship

" Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent. " # Trade Unions # Democracy # Power