Bobby Sands Quotes

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• We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.
• Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and…
• They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots.…
• I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.
• I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.
• My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the people stood by…
• All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy.…
• There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control…
• Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal
• I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime..
• We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
• They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
• Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
• They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when…
• Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or…
• I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

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