Irish - Activist | March 9, 1954 - May 5, 1981
They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
Bobby Sands
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Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
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We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
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I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.
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I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken.
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We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is, the love of one's people and country is a crime.
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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.
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'They have nothing in their entire arsenal to break the spirit of one single Republican prisoner-of-war who refuses to be broken,' I thought, and that was very true. They cannot or never will break our spirit.
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I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
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I was set to confront the might of the imperial empire with an M-1 carbine and enough hate to topple the world.
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There is that much to be done that no select or small portion of people can do; only the greater mass of the Irish nation will ensure the achievement of a Socialist Republic, and this can only be done by hard work and sacrifice.
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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.
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