Argument Quote by John Hume
“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 My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date”
“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 My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date”
![“The British leadership has acknowledged that it only became possible to end the violence in North Ireland when it stopped thinking of the [Irish Republican Army] as "a terrorist organization" and began treating it as a political actor with genuine grievances that deserved to be addressed.” quote by Richard A. Falk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/901/richard-a-falk-8295_actors_the-british-leadership-has-acknowledged_1560439.jpg)
