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We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

Bobby Sands

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn’t want to be broken.
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Broken Spirit Want
Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal
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Criminals Labels Struggle
They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots.
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Identity Law Struggle True
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
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Boys Class Ghetto
The people not only opened the doors of their homes to lend us a hand, but they opened their hearts to us. I learned that without the people, we could not survive and I knew that I owed them everything.
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Homes Opened Ownedm Everything People
There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.
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Force Foreign Free Freedom Kill Source
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.
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Ideas Necks Rope
All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy.
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Height Men might
There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed.
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Destiny Leaving People
The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
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Day Freedom Moon Rising Show
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.
BOBBY SANDS

Crime Criminal Lying
Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected.
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Continue Fate Generations Mervilessly Occupation

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

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