Best Quote by Bernadette Devlin

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

— Bernadette Devlin

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.

— Bernadette Devlin

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

— Bernadette Devlin

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

— Bernadette Devlin

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb,…

— Bernadette Devlin

Free love is too expensive.

— Bernadette Devlin

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ.…

— Bernadette Devlin

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

— Bernadette Devlin

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

— Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them…

— Bernadette Devlin

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

— Bernadette Devlin

Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one…

— Bernadette Devlin