Gerry Adams Quotes

• Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the last 30 years.

  Gerry Adams

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• We want him to be the last British Prime Minister with jurisdiction in Ireland.

  Gerry Adams

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• 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.

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  Tags in Republican, Patience, Political, Institutions

• 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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• 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.

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  Tags in Sovereignty, Issues

• 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.

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• But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda – no-one else is going to do that.

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  Tags in Republicans, Irish, Sovereignty

• It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

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  Tags in Battle

• At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

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  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Army

• 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.

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  Tags in Enormous, Environment

• But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.

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• Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.

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  Tags in Republican, Volunteers

• Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

  Gerry Adams

  Topics in Justice, Leadership

  Tags in Equality

• 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.

  Gerry Adams

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  Tags in British, Irish, Governments

• The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

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  Tags in Entitlement, Agreement, Citizens

• Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

  Gerry Adams

  Topics in Decisions, Future

• 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.

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  Tags in South Africa, Peace, Process

• The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

  Gerry Adams

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  Tags in Humiliation, Inequality

• The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.

  Gerry Adams

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  Tags in Catalyst, Republicanism

• Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.

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  Tags in Potential, Republican, Objectives

Gerry Adams (29)

Birth:	6th October, 1948
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Politician

About

Gerry Adams was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is an Irish republican politician who is the president of the Sinn Féin political party, and a Teachta Dála for Louth since the 2011 general election. From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he was an abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament for Belfast West. He has written several books including Falls Memories: A Belfast Life, The Politics of Irish Freedom, A Pathway to Peace, Cage Eleven, The Street and Other Stories, Free Ireland, Before the Dawn(memoir), An Irish Voice, An Irish Journal, A Farther Shore, Hope and History, and An Irish Eye.

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