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We believe in constitutional action in normal times we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

James Connolly

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James Connolly
Age: 47 †
Born: 1868
Born: June 5
Died: 1916
Died: May 12
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Séamas Ó Conghaile
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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!
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The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.
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Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.
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Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.
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Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.
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The great appear great to us.
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We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.
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Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.
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