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We need not kneel/Our cause is high/Of true men there's no dearth/And our victorious rallying cry shall be/We want the earth./We only want the earth. ... No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. If such a movement has caught hold of the imagination of the masses, they will seek a vent in song for the aspirations ... Until the movement is marked by ... revolutionary songs, it lacks one of the distinctive marks of a popular revolutionary movement. ... James Connolly

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Title: We need not kneel/Our cause is high/Of true men there's no dearth/And our victorious rallying cry shall be/We want the earth./We only want the earth. ... No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. If such a movement has caught hold of the imagination of the masses, they will seek a vent in song for the aspirations ... Until the movement is marked by ... revolutionary songs, it lacks one of the distinctive marks of a popular revolutionary movement. ... James Connolly
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949?
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution
Collection: Hoover Institution Digital Collections
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Type: image
Identifier: XX343.9767
Relation: Poster collection

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