C. L. R. James Quotes
A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars
Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.
Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.
The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.
We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.
Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.
I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun.
Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.
In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!
No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour
Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.
