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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More Bernadette Devlin Quotes
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I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn’t my business.
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It wasn’t long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
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I’m not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.
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Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.
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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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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.
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Free love is too expensive.
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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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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
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We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
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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!
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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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It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland.
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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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The Irish aren’t great singers, but they have great songs.
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