- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
- British Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020