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John Hume has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality...
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Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from…
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Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up…
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I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
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I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a…
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I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which…
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In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things…
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In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a…
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These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception…
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They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put…
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Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite…
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The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I…
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There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist…
— John Hume
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The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not…
— Unknown Author
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The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.
— Ernest Bevin
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Unions are for 'collective bargaining,' not individual bargaining. It follows that most of the achievements of a union, even if they were…
— Mancur Olson
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I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.
— Peter Hain
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If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to…
— Dick Spring
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There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may…
— Josiah Wedgwood
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I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.
— Peter Ustinov
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I'm a passionate trade unionist.
— Richard Attenborough
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Many years later, after Niemöller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he…
— Eric Metaxas
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My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade…
— Robert Harris
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I cannot imagine any circumstances under which David McNarry would be back in the Ulster Unionist Assembly group of MLAs when I…
— Mike Nesbitt
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