Quote#Hope
When questions of “class” interests are eliminated from public…
Quote byJames Connolly · 1868–1916
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Labour in Irish History (1919), p. 15.
English (original)
When questions of “class” interests are eliminated from public controversy a victory is thereby gained for the possessing, conservative class, whose only hope of security lies in such elimination.
— James Connolly
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