"I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people."

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Source : Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

Bobby Sands

#People Quotes #Republic Quotes #May Quotes

“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.”
“I love the farm, I love growing stuff.”
“The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you.”
“When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.”
“Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.”
“The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.”
“Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.”

Source : Galway Kinnell (1973). “The Book of Nightmares”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The Nova Scotian black community always remembered Viola Desmond - they didn't lose track of her, ever. Her memory was very much alive there, but the rest of us didn't know anything about her. It's just so typical of Canadians that we know Rosa Parks, in that "bad country to the south of us" - they needed this lovely, courageous woman to sit down in the front of the bus - but we wouldn't know ours, because of course we "don't have racism in Canada."”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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