We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.
BOBBY SANDSThe 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.
More Bobby Sands Quotes
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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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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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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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You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.
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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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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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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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Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal
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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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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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There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed.
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