James Larkin Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Intolerance has been the curse of our country.”
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“There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.”
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“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.”
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“The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
-- James Larkin
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