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
The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership. – Gerry Adams
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment. – 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
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950