I honour their [the other prisoners] cursing, and venerate their black looks, trusting that their wrath will fructify into an intelligent and wholesome hatred of those damnable “institutions” which make so much of gentlemanhood and so little of manhood.

Jail Journal, John Mitchel. 1854

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You do not know where the circumstances of life will take you; your flag may be directly challenged to your face, and you must reveal yourself. These are things to avoid. Be firm, rather than aggressive; but be always quietly prepared for the aggressive man; that is to inspire confidence in the timid.

Principles of Freedom, Terence MacSwiney

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England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs.

Socialism and Nationalism, James Connolly. Eanáir 1897

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[Seán] Treacy remarked to me that we had had enough of being pushed around and getting our men imprisoned while we remained inacitve. It was high time that we did a bit of the pushing.
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This action of ours would proclaim to the world that there still lived Irishmen who had made up their minds not to allow free passage to an armed enemy.

My Fight For Irish Freedom, Dan Breen. 1924

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Be assured that such a death always means a redemption. Emmet redeemed Ireland from acquiescence in the Union. His attempt was not a failure, but a triumph for that deathless thing we call Irish Nationality. It was by Emmet that men remembered Ireland until Davis and Mitchel took up his work again, and '48 handed on the tradition to '67, and from '67 we receive the tradition unbroken.

Robert Emmet & The Ireland Of Today, Pádraig Pearse. 2ú Marta 1914

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It is supposed to be “popularising” science when a compiler gathers a parcel of results in some department of knowledge, and sets them forth in familiar style, never troubling himself or readers — indeed, knowing nothing — about the processes whereby those results are got; and so your reader of popular literature learns to babble about the profundity of modern science — you must know it is all modern — and to bestow his enlightened pity on ancient people generally, but above all, on the poor alchemists and astrologers.

Jail Journal, John Mitchel. 1854

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When we find the national idea touches life at every point, we begin to realise how frequent the call is to defend it without warning.

Principles of Freedom, Terence MacSwiney

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To save our struggling farmers from the merciless bleeding of our banking system and money-lenders in general, let our representatives in parliament force forward the legislative abolition of our present banking houses and the suppression of all forms of interest mongering, and the establishment in their stead of state banking institutions, with popularly elected boards of directors, issuing loans at rates of interest as low as is consistent with economic soundness.

Erin's Hope, James Connolly. 1897

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We went to Limerick on Whit Sunday, 23 May 1915, to take part in a big parade of Irish Volunteers organised by the Dublin Brigade. Pádraig Pearse was Present. Special trains had brought about 600 men from Dublin, and there were contingents from many other places, including 250 from Cork. We marched at the rear of the Tipperary column and we were sorely tempted to open fire on the hostile crowd that pelted us with garbage as we paraded through the streets.

My Fight For Irish Freedom, Dan Breen. 1924

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But in all the details of their programmes the schools should have autonomy. The
function of the central authority should be to coordinate. to maintain a standard, to
advise, to inspire, to keep the teachers in touch with educational thought in other
lands. I would transfer the centre of gravity at the system from the education office to
the teachers, the teachers in fact would be the system. Teachers, and not clerks,
would henceforth conduct the education of the country.

The Murder Machine, Pádraig Pearse. Feabhra 1913

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