James Connolly Quotes
The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees;, LET US RISE!
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
James Connolly, 1868-1916, Founder, Irish Socialist Republican Party, Military Commander of Republican Forces in Dublin, Irish Founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Party, Co-Founder Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Irish Socialist Republican Party, 1896
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In the late 1830's a revolutionary political movement of small tenant farmers grew in upper New York State. There was much violence and anti-renters were hanged and jailed. After a few years they elected 14 members of the state legislature and had their fellows pardoned:
This was one of the first calls for a slave strike in America.
The slogan was made famous by James Larkin, 1875–1947, Irish trade union leader who used it frequently and whose memorial statue in Dublin contains the quotation in French, English and Irish.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999} Franklin Delano Roosevelt later used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999}. This was one of the great quotations to come out of the Spanish Revolution. It inspired freedom loving people the world over, then and through this day.
The organization sent 2,100 volunteers to fight for South American independence from Spain.
Despite his speeches like this one, he was a ruthless dictator who then before his death in 2000 handed power to his son.
James Connolly was an Irish republican, socialist and trade union leader. Born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish parents Connolly left school for working life at the age of 11, and became involved in socialist politics in the 1880s.
