Bobby Sands Quotes

#1. 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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#2. We must see our present fight right through to the very end.

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#3. 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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#4. Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

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#5. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.

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#6. I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

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#7. 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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#8. 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. 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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#9. They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. 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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#10. 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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#11. Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

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#12. I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.

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#13. I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime..

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#14. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

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#15. Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

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