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When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
Gerry Adams

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

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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

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We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
Gerry Adams

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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

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The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
Gerry Adams

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For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
Gerry Adams

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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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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

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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

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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.
Gerry Adams

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

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

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