<HTML><HTML>In a message dated 5/3/05 1:20:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, lbo-talk-request@lbo-talk.org writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">On 5/1/05, Ian M. <mcleod9@gmail.com> wrote: > The great only appear great because we are on our knees. Stand up. - > James Connolly 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. </BLOCKQUOTE> 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. </HTML>