Irish - Activist | January 21, 1875 - January 30, 1947
We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
James Larkin
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Intolerance has been the curse of our country.
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We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.
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Comrades - We are living in momentous times.
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A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.
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By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.
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Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
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For years and years I have done the work I was born for.
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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.
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I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.
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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.
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I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.
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