Gerry Adams Quotes

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Gerry Adams

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 6, 1948

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

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

Gerry Adams

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

Gerry Adams

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.

Gerry Adams

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

Gerry Adams

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

Gerry Adams

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

Gerry Adams

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

Gerry Adams

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

Gerry Adams

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.

Gerry Adams

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

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

Gerry Adams

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

Gerry Adams

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

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

Gerry Adams

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.

Gerry Adams

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

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

Gerry Adams

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

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.

Gerry Adams