Martin McGuinness Quotes

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

Never mind a world That can't see past brutality Answers are getting the gas Live gestures Have constantly been used As weapons

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

I fight against Fascism; that is my trade.

Those who perpetrate these brutal acts against our people should know that they are not going to change our way of life.

As long as there are men who would hate and destroy, we must find the courage to resist

Liberty has its roots in blood.

The road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

Your body is a battleground.

If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.