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.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

Comrades - We are living in momentous times!

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

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.

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.

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.

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland

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.

Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.

The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.

Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.