Ireland Quotes by Gerry Adams

8 Ireland quotes by Gerry Adams

If you want a brief, heartfelt perspective on Ireland from a long‑time activist, these eight lines deliver his core sentiment.

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I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland

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There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an…

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The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals…

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For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

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No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term…

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In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was…

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Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected…

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But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then…

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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.…

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Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations…

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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward…

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It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.

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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…

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We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

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There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist…

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Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

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I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

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A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

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“It will always be a batt le a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.”

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The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

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Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously,…

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I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

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