Quotes & Stuff

Here is a list of quotes that i consider rational enough to reinforce my line of thought in general…..

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, “Thus far shalt thou go and no further.”

“Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England – Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.”

– Charles Stewart Parnell

“Brave Irishmen, our cause is common. Like you we hold as indefeasible the right of all nations to liberty.”

– General Jean Joseph Amable Humbert

“In my son’s veins flowed the blood of Irish rebels” – Ernesto Guevara Lynch Che’s Father

“In the history of our fight against British imperialists, there is no other struggle which has influenced us so much, and for which we have so much sympathy, as that of the brave Irish nation” – Subhas Chandra Bose – founder of the Indian National Army

“Give Ireland back to the Irish” – Paul McCartney

“If it’s a choice between the IRA and the British Army, I’m with the IRA” – John Lennon

“….a cowardly desertion of the Protestants of the West and South” – ‘Lord’ Edward Carson (speaking about Partition of Ulster)

Lord Carson, who bitterly opposed the creation of ‘Northern Ireland’, also disliked many of Ulster’s local characteristics and in particular the culture of Orangeism. He stated that their speeches reminded him of the unrolling of a mummy. All old bones and rotten rags.[5]

Sir Patrick Mayhew stated that the behaviour of the Orange Order would “disgrace a tribe of cannibals”

“After we are gone, what will you say you were doing? Will you say you were with us in our struggle or were you conforming to the very system that drove us to our deaths?”

– Patsy O’Hara

“There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government.”

– Gerry Adams, 1984

“We do not see why Ireland should allow England to govern her, either through Englishmen, as at present, or through Irishmen under an appearance of self-government”

– Padraig Pearse

“It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his countrys subjection to England”

– Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa

“British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of the cake will implement British policy and remain silent when Irish people are murdered and oppressed. It is they who are responsible for prolonging the war in Ireland. Without the quislings, without the collaborators, we would already have reached freedom.”

– Martin McGuinness, Bodenstown, June 26 1986 (AP/RN)

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