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Quotation by James Connolly
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Labour in Ireland (1916)Labour in Irish History (1910)The Re-Conquest of Ireland (1915)Related Subjects
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Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
James Connolly (1870–1916), Irish syndicalist, Republican leader. Labour in Irish History, foreword (1910).
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