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“Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Peace #War #Found
“It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Battle #Want #Status Quo
“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.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Struggle #Government #People
“Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges”
-- Gerry Adams

#Water
“I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Grief #Thinking #Kind
“If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Situation #Response
“I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Responsibility #Thinking #Government
“It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Children #Thinking #Delight
“You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Judging
“I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Sunday #Years #News
“War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.”
-- Gerry Adams

#War #Nice #Views
“For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Responsibility #Dodge #Ill
“I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Thinking #Community #My Family
“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.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Judgment #Good Things
“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.”
-- Gerry Adams

#People #Risk #Dawn
“Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Islands #Talking #Tree
“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.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Eye #Keys #Rights
“Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Play #Justice #Roles
“But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Strong #Views #Example
“The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Friday #Agreement #Matter
“One man's transparency is another's humiliation.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Men #Transparency #Humiliation
“We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Friday #Happy Friday #Agreement
“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.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Struggle #Eye #Past
“The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Leadership #Commitment #Army
“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.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Taken #Example #Use
“It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Reality #Long #Crossroads
“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.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Equality #Issues #Agendas
“A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna FÃ¡il”
-- Gerry Adams

#Real #Government #Possibility
“The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Winning #Goal #Support
“Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.”
-- Gerry Adams

#Determination #Struggle #Selflessness

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