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James Larkin

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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.


— James Larkin


#above #alien #all things #body #cancer

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.


— James Larkin


#british empire #construction #destruction #empire #england

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.


— James Larkin


#avenue #book #closed #freedom #live

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.


— James Larkin


#arms #could #god #great #great things

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


— James Larkin


#conscience #enjoys #every #individual #liberty

Comrades - We are living in momentous times.


— James Larkin


#living #momentous #times

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


— James Larkin


#done #i #i was born #work #years

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.


— James Larkin


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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.


— James Larkin


#aware #control #course #development #i

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.


— James Larkin


#country #curse #intolerance #our






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Led by Murphy over four hundred of the city's employers retaliated by requiring their workers to sign a pledge not to be a member of the ITGWU and not to engage in sympathetic strikes. However as a result of a libel award against him won by William O'Brien which he had refused to pay he was an undischarged bankrupt and could not take up his seat. Both had craft unions for skilled workers but Larkin's main aim was to unionise the unskilled workers as well.

He and his family later moved to a small cottage in Burren southern County Down. Growing up in poverty he received little formal education and began working in a variety of jobs while still a child.

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