Bernadette Devlin Quotes

I think my life will always be worth living, though I don’t imagine it being very easy.

BERNADETTE DEVLIN

I think my life will always be worth living, though I don’t imagine it being very easy.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Easy
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.

BERNADETTE DEVLIN

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.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Church Doctrine Dozen Use
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.

BERNADETTE DEVLIN

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.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Go Jobs Letting
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Confined
I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Thumbs Years
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.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Century Dragged Eighteenth Middle
I’m not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.

BERNADETTE DEVLIN

I’m not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Not Saint
My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

BERNADETTE DEVLIN

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Politician

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