Bobby Sands Quotes

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

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

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime.

We must see our present fight right through to the very end.

The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.