Bobby Sands Quotes

• 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.

  Bobby Sands

  Destiny, People, Leaving

  Bobby Sands (1997). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Roberts Rinehart Publishers

  68 Copy quote

• Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

  Bobby Sands

  Happiness, Laughter, Children

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  72 Copy quote

• 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

  Broken, Want, Spirit

  58 Copy quote

• You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.

  Bobby Sands

  Ideas, Rope, Necks

  64 Copy quote

• 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.

  Bobby Sands

  Struggle, True Identity, Law

  Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

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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.

  Bobby Sands

  Freedom, Heart, Army

  Bobby Sands (1998). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Mercier PressLtd

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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.

  Bobby Sands

  Play, Republican, Young

  Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

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• I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.

  Bobby Sands

  People, Dying, Republic

  Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

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• 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.

  Bobby Sands

  Men, Height, Might

  Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

  44 Copy quote

• 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.

  Bobby Sands

  War, Gun, Winning

  33 Copy quote

• I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

  Bobby Sands

  Ghetto, Boys, Class

  Republican News, December 16, 1978.

  41 Copy quote

• 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.

  Bobby Sands

  Home, Heart, Night

  83 Copy quote

• We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

  Bobby Sands

  Lying, Criminals, Crime

  56 Copy quote

• Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

  Bobby Sands

  Struggle, Criminals, Labels

  Bobby Sands (1998). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Mercier PressLtd

  57 Copy quote

• I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

  Bobby Sands

  Hunger Strike, Soul, World

  Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

  36 Copy quote

• I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime.

  Bobby Sands

  Fighting, Years, Might

  30 Copy quote

• 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

  Fate, Generations, Occupation

  Bobby Sands (1997). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Roberts Rinehart Publishers

  20 Copy quote

• We must see our present fight right through to the very end.

  Bobby Sands

  Fighting, Ends

  Bobby Sands (1997). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Roberts Rinehart Publishers

  21 Copy quote

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