James Daly Quotes

Truly is the dawn of freedom appearing - truly the emancipation of the tenant farmers of Ireland. The south is awakening, slowly but surely.

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.

The oppressed will make surer and faster progress if they eschew violence and depend, as they do mainly depend in their organizing and strike activities, on their solidarity, courage, capacity for suffering and sacrifice, and on non-cooperation where injustice becomes extreme

You should not neglect agitation; each of you should make it his task.

Fellow citizens: The hour to try your souls and to redeem your pledges has arrived. Stand together in face of the brutal, cowardly enemies of your race! Bring English tyranny to its knees. Pay no rent under any pretext! The government, with its bayonets, will learn in a single Winter how powerless are armed forces against the will of a united determined, and self-reliant nation.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

In all the Arab countries I have been in, the people have said that they were not demonstrating for food. They wanted dignity.

The center of gravity has shifted from the courts to community action.

First—to put an end to Rack-Renting, Eviction, and Landlord Oppression. Second—To effect such a radical change in the Land System of Ireland as will put it in the power of every Irish Farmer to become the owner, on fair terms, of the land he tills.

One doesn't have to be an activist and start a movement.

I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the less fortunate of our number.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.

In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

There is no power above people power.

We are the world.

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

Be it Resolved, That we urgently call upon the wage earning class to arm itself in order to be able to put forth against their exploiters such an argument which alone can be effective: Violence.

Who are we to judge the people of Ecuador? We cannot condemn people when they take to the streets.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.