One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

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

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

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

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

It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.

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

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

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.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

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.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.

Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.

And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.