The great appear great because we are on our knees

On the plinth of the Jim Larkin

statue in Dublin’s O’Connell Street. 

'The great appear great because we are on our knees.'

- Camille Desmoulins

‘He talked to the workers, spoke as only Jim Larkin could speak, not for an assignation with peace, dark obedience, or placid resignation, but trumpet-tongued of resistance to wrong, discontent with leering poverty, and defiance of any power strutting out to stand in the way of their march onward.’

- Sean O'Casey