Quotes by James Connolly

• Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
• The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
• Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.