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" Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island. "
Gerry Adams
Island
Dead
Me
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" The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union. "
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" 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. "
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" In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic. "
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" Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future. "
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" For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. "
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Over
Ireland
" Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war. "
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" If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage. "
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End
Forgive
Me
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New
Irish
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