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
determination struggle selflessness
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.
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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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Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast majority of the Irish people There are those who tell us that the British government will not be moved by armed struggle. As has been said before, the history of Ireland and of British colonial involvement throughout the world tells us that they will not be moved by anything else.
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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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The RUC have been tolerating road and street blocks being set up. There have been Catholics evicted from their homes by mobs. All of this raises the temperature.
bring carefully rehearsed staged tantrums
These carefully staged tantrums and rehearsed walk-outs aren't the way to bring about a settlement.
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isn't about guns. This is about those who are against change.
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I see no reason whatsoever why there should be British troops in any part of my country, and particularly in the almost eighth year of two IRA decisions, why people should have more contact with British troops than they had previously,
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the worst crisis this process has been in,
consider opportunity
another opportunity for Unionists to consider where they want to go from here.
across delivered equality sector
Equality has to be delivered and it has to be right across every sector ...
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Perhaps just once in a fairly bleak international situation ... maybe hope and history is reigning in Ireland
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save the peace process from collapse and transform the situation.
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People can die from the cold and people are certainly deprived because of the cold. I think the people have a right to a warm home.