Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Quotes

• Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism… to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

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• My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

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• It wasn’t long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

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• I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn’t talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

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• One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!

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• Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I’ve allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.

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• To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

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• Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

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Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (8)

Birth:	23rd April, 1947
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Politician

About

Josephine Bernadette Devlin McAliskey She served as a Member of the UK Parliament from 1969 to 1974 for the Mid Ulster constituency, in which role she slapped the Home Secretary, Reginald Maudling, as a reaction to his comments on Bloody Sunday. She lost her seat to John Dunlop of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, after coming third in a four-sided contest in the general election of February 1974.

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