Bobby Sands

I am dying not just to attempt to end the barbarity of H-blocks or to gain the rightful recognition of political prisoners,…

— Bobby Sands

All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a…

— Bobby Sands

I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken.

— Bobby Sands

My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the…

— Bobby Sands

If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly…

— Bobby Sands

I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.

— Bobby Sands

Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

— Bobby Sands

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.

— Bobby Sands

I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being…

— Bobby Sands

We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is,…

— Bobby Sands

The body doesn't accept the lack of food, and it suffers from the temptation of food and from other aspects which gnaw…

— Bobby Sands

We must see our present fight right through to the very end.

— Bobby Sands

“If I die, God will understand.”

— Bobby Sands

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is…

— Bobby Sands

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.

— Bobby Sands

I am (even after all the torture) amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit…

— Bobby Sands

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day…

— Bobby Sands

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

— Bobby Sands

Well, I have gotten by twenty-seven years, so that is something. I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die.…

— Bobby Sands

There is that much to be done that no select or small portion of people can do; only the greater mass of…

— Bobby Sands

I was set to confront the might of the imperial empire with an M-1 carbine and enough hate to topple the world.

— Bobby Sands

Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain…

— Bobby Sands

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

— Bobby Sands

There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a…

— Bobby Sands

I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime..

— Bobby Sands