One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
BERNADETTE DEVLINTo gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
More Bernadette Devlin Quotes
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The Irish aren’t great singers, but they have great songs.
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I think my life will always be worth living, though I don’t imagine it being very easy.
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Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe’s oddest countries.
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But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I’ve allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.
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We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
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Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
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It wasn’t long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
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Free love is too expensive.
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Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.
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Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody’s lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.
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My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
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I’m not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.
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