Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams
Gerard Adamsis an Irish republican politician who is the president of the Sinn Féin political party, and a Teachta Dálafor Louth since the 2011 general election...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 October 1948
CityBelfast, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
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It's good to be here with your heroes and heroines. South Africa has been a beacon for freedom-loving nations, and what you have here is not only about the past but also about the future.
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It means that Unionists who are for the Good Friday Agreement must end their ambivalence, ... And it is a direct challenge to the DUP to decide if they want to put the past behind them and make peace with the rest of the people of this island.
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Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.
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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.
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Everyone needs time to absorb this and particularly unionists need time to absorb this and they need some space,
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This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing,
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The two governments, the UUP and other parties should grasp the new opportunity that this unprecedented statement from the IICD creates.
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We in Sinn Fein have many good friends in the USA, with this president (George W. Bush) and former president Bill Clinton,
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There is no justification for what happened this afternoon in Dublin. Sinn Fein had appealed to people to ignore this loyalist parade and not to be provoked by it. Our view was that it should not be opposed in any way and we made that clear.
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There is no such thing as the Unionists ever having it on their own terms again, because whatever is worked out here has to be on the basis that it is acceptable to all sections of our people.
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There is still not peace. The agreement is not a settlement. There are good things in it, there are bad things in it that people will have to get their heads around,
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We will be there for one reason and one reason only: the election of a government in line with the Good Friday agreement.
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We will be seeking continued support for our efforts, for our particular view of the way these negotiations should go.
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another opportunity for Unionists to consider where they want to go from here.