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" We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works. "

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" We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence. "

" 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. "

" It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo. "

" 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. "

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

" One man's transparency is another's humiliation. "

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

" When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity. "

" The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that. "

" Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice. "

" The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally. "

" But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example. "

Lead By Example

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

" 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. "

" Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems. "

" If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response. "

" 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. "