James Larkin Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.”

“I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.”

“Man must be associated with his fellows.”

“We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.”

“The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.”

“Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.”

“I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.”

“Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.”

“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.”

“For years and years I have done the work I was born for.”