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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
- Commitment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
- Fein
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
- Enshrined
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.
- Humiliation
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- Nov 07, 2020
One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
- Continue
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020