9 Bobby Sands Quotes for You to Enjoy

Bobby Sands

Irish Activist

Born: Mar 9, 1954

Died: May 5, 1981

Break Broken Freedom Nothing People Will

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I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land. Bobby Sands

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

Broken Nothing Spirit Imperial Arsenal Irishman Want Break Who Whole

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon. Bobby Sands

Day Freedom Me Heart People Will Moon See Rising Dawn Because Ireland Irish Irish People Break Then Show Desire

I am (even after all the torture) amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. They have not dispirited, conquered, nor demoralised my people, nor will they ever. Bobby Sands

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

Freedom Ghetto Spirit Only Boy Revolutionary Nationalist Repression Creates Working-Class

I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken. Bobby Sands

Matter Nothing Unbroken Remaining Except Mattered Skeleton Really Used Compared

If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly be changed... We have asserted that we are political prisoners, and everything about out country - our arrests, interrogations, trials, and prison conditions - show that we are politically motivated. Bobby Sands

Government Trials Political Long Country Prison Changed Our Everything Out Would About Almost Policy Arrest Prisoners Motivated Conditions Domestic Domestic Policy Political Prisoners Persistent Politically Experienced Then Show Certainly England Asserted Resistance British British Government

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