Bernadette Devlin Quotes

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• There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.
• To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
• It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
• We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
• My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
• It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere…
• I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied…
• Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and…
• Free love is too expensive.
• Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom.…
• One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And…
• Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
• To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

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