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Bobby Sands was an Irish republican and member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). He is best known for his role in the 1981 Irish hunger strike, during which he died. Sands was a prominent figure in the struggle for Irish independence and his death became a symbol of the conflict.

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Famous Bobby Sands Quotes

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

Ideas Necks Rope

Author:Bobby Sands

“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.”

Men May War Winning Gun Bombs Yield Unyielding Coerce

Author: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.”

Want Whole Spirit Break Broken Republican Arsenal Irishmen

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“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.”

Children Happiness Joy Republican Laughter Our Children Revenge

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“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.”

People Heart Shows Desire Freedom Break My Heart Moon Army Dawn Rising Ireland Ireland And The Irish Hunger Strike

Book:Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison

Source: Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison

“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.”

Play Young Particular Republican

Book:Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands

Source: Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands

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

Spirit Class Boys Revolutionary Working Class Repression Ghetto

Author:Bobby Sands

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

Lying Crime Refuse Criminals Accused Dishonor Irishmen

Author:Bobby Sands

“Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected.”

Ifs Fate Generations Economic Judgment Britain Occupation Ireland Exploitation Oppressors Judgment Day

Book:Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison

Source: Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison

“They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.”

Law Struggle Identity Criminals Stealing Labels Liberation Decent Individualism Robots Abiding True Identity

Book:Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands

Source: Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands

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

World May Soul Standing Mercy My Soul Threshold Trembling Hunger Strike

Book:Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands

Source: Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands

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

People May Dies Dying Liberation Immortality Republic

Book:Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands

Source: Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands

“My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the people stood by us. The people not only opened the doors of their homes to lend us a hand, but they opened their hearts to us. I learned that without the people, we could not survive and I knew that I owed them everything.”

People Heart Home Hands Night Doors Operations Nerves Calming Brits Sleepless Nights

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“All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.”

Knows Men Should Might Dies Force Grows Break Source All Things Height Free Will One Man Bloody Freeman

Book:Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands

Source: Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands

“There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.”

People Mind Body Destiny Leaving Affair Determine British Ireland Units Sovereign Mind And Body

Book:Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison

Source: Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison

“Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal”

Struggle Republican Criminals Labels Liberation

Book:Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison

Source: Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison

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

Years Might Fighting Crime Republican Brands My Time Britain Ireland Uniforms Convicts

Author:Bobby Sands

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

Book:Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison

Source: Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison

About the Author

Born: March 9, 1954
Died: May 5, 1981
Known for: Political leader
Quotes: 18

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