Words matter. These are the best Gerry Adams Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.
If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.
When I wrote ‘Before The Dawn,’ I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can’t talk about simply because I’d put them at risk.
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
I like to think I’m very grounded. I’m very grounded in my family. I’m very grounded in my community.
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.
Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.
The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
One man’s transparency is another’s humiliation.
We can be revisionist, and that’s a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn’t airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.
But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.
We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
It’s hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
