Bobby Sands quotes

Bobby Sands was an Irish republican activist and member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). His imprisonment and subsequent hunger strike in 1981 brought international attention to the situation in Northern Ireland. He became a symbol of resistance and sacrifice for the republican cause. Here are 28 of his 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. (Bobby Sands)
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. View quote
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I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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To dance and prance Is elegant and neat. To wine and dine on red port wine Is such a tasty treat. To eat and sit where you've just shit! Is not so bloody sweet! View quote
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There's rain on the wind, the tears of spirits, The clink of key on iron is near, A shuttling train passes by on rail, There's more than God for man to fear. View quote
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White walls! White walls! Torturous sprawls, With ne'er a window space. And so confined a quaking mind Goes mad in such a place The monotony so torturously Cuts deep into the mind, That men lose hope and just elope With charge of any kind. View quote
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Our revenge will be the laughter of our children. View quote
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A guide to me in times of plight A princess like a star so bright For life would never have been the same If I hadn't of learned what small things came. So forgive me Mum just a little more For not loving you so much before, For life and love you gave to me I give my thanks for eternity. View quote
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It wept by the waters of Babylon, And when all men were a loss, It screeched in writhing agony, And it hung bleeding from the Cross. It died in Rome by lion and sword, And in defiant cruel array, When the deathly word was ‘Spartacus' Along the Appian Way. (Bobby Sands)
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. I shall not settle until I achieve liberation of my country, until Ireland becomes a sovereign, independent socialist republic. View quote
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In the gutters lies the black man, dead, And where oil flows blackest, the streets run red, And there was He who was born and came to be, Who lived and died without liberty. View quote
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Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee, But it will come to rise again. View quote
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The days were long and lonely. The sudden and total deprivation of such basic human necessities as exercise and fresh air, association with other people, my own clothes and things like newspapers, radio, cigarettes books and a host of other things, made my life very hard. View quote
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And blessed is he man who stands Before his God in pain And on his back a cross of woe His wounds a gaping shame. For this man is a son of God And hallowed be thy name. View quote
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They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken. View quote
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Dear Mum, I know you're always there To help and guide me with all your care, You nursed and fed me and made me strong To face the world and all its wrong. View quote
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It is said we live in modern times, In the civilised year of 'seventy-nine, But when I look around, all I see, Is modern torture, pain and hypocrisy. View quote
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The winds of war came sweeping cruel, The flower would not cry, Oh, how it broke the freeman's heart, To see the first rose die. Some soldiers plucked the garden's joy, And left a burning mark, Upon the silver petalled bloom, Now fettered in he dark. View quote
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It comes searing ‘cross the skies. It lights the dark of this prison cell, It thunders forth its might, It is "the undauntable thought", my friend, That thought that says "I'm right!" (Bobby Sands)
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. View quote
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We must see our present fight right through to the very end. View quote
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And it hung bleeding from the Cross. View quote
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It is found in every light of hope, It knows no bounds nor space It has risen in red and black and white, It is there in every race. View quote
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