Author: Gerry Adams

Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

- Gerry Adams

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

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.

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

- Gerry Adams

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

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

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

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

- 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.

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 catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.

The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.

- Gerry Adams

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