John Hume Quotes

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• All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality...
• Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
• Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit…
• I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
• I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond…
• I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an…
• In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't…
• In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the…
• These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child…
• They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My…
• Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of…
• The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for…
• The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that…
• My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves,…
• My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative…
• When people are divided, the only solution is agreement
• There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was…
• The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that…
• The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear
• Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.

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