However It May Be For

If You Remove The English Army To-morrow And Hoist The Green Flag Over Dublin Castle, Unless You Set About The Organisation Of The Socialist Republic Your Efforts Would Be In Vain.

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!

The Worker Is The Slave Of Capitalist Society, The Female Worker Is The Slave Of That Slave.

Under A Socialist System Every Nation Will Be The Supreme Arbiter Of Its Own Destinies, National And International; Will Be Forced Into No Alliance Against Its Will, But Will Have Its Independence Guaranteed And Its Freedom Respected By The Enlightened Self-interest Of The Socialist Democracy Of The World.

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.