16 Quotes by Bobby Sands
Bobby Sands, an Irish republican and member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), became an iconic figure during "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland. Sands played a pivotal role in the 1981 Irish hunger strike, during which Republican prisoners protested against the British government's policy to strip them of their status as political prisoners.
Sands' decision to lead the hunger strike and his subsequent death after 66 days of fasting brought international attention to the conflict in Northern Ireland and galvanized support for the republican cause.
Sands' determination, self-sacrifice, and commitment to his political beliefs made him a symbol of resistance and a martyr for the Irish nationalist movement. His legacy continues to inspire and provoke discussion on the complex issues surrounding the conflict in Northern Ireland and the pursuit of self-determination.
Bobby Sands Quotes
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the people stood by us. The people not only opened the doors of their homes to lend us a hand, but they opened their hearts to us.
I learned that without the people, we could not survive and I knew that I owed them everything.
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea. (Meaning)
They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.
They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.
Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal
Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.
All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.
Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.
I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime.
We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected.
― Bobby Sands Quotes
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