> On 5/1/05, Ian M. <mcleod9 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > The great only appear great because we are on our knees. Stand up. -
> > James Connolly
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> It was actually Jim Larkin who said this, not Connolly, although it's
> not hard to see how they could be confused. The full accurate quote
> is "The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise."
> It appears on a statue of Larkin on O'Connell Street, the main drag
> here in Dublin.
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I always thought it was:
"The great appear great in our eyes Only because we kneel. Let us rise!"
May not be the original quotation, but it does rhyme.
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