Frases de James Connolly

James Connolly foi um líder nacionalista irlandês e revolucionário socialista. Nasceu na Escócia, filho de pais emigrantes irlandeses. Deixou a escola para ir trabalhar já aos onze anos, convertendo-se posteriormente num dos líderes políticos da esquerda revolucionária da altura. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. Junho 1868 – 12. Maio 1916
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James Connolly: Frases em inglês

“The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour.”

Workers' Republic 8 April, 1916. Reprinted in P. Beresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly - Selected Writings, p. 145.

“Governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.”

The Irish Worker, 29 August, 1915. Reprinted in P. Beresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly - Selected Writings, p. 248

“Men perish but principles live.”

Labour, Nationality and Religion (1910)

“Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left…”

Letter from James Connolly to John Carstairs Matheson, 30 January 1908. Socialism Today - The Connolly & religion debate http://www.socialismtoday.org/103/connolly.html

“The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.”

in P. Beresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly - Selected Writings, p. 191.