Gerry Adams Quotes

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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. I've…
• One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
• We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
• It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
• 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…
• For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
• The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
• 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…
• 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…
• Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
• 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…
• The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
• It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.
• But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.
• Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
• 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…
• Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast…
• There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.
• I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland
• There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if…

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