Gerry Adams Quotes

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.
Gerry Adams

Dead, Talking, Gone

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

Change, Battle, Between

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

Peace, War, Making

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
Gerry Adams

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
Gerry Adams

Leadership, Made, Republican

We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
Gerry Adams

Good, Friday, Sure

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

Government, Rule, British

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
Gerry Adams

Good, Friday, Rights

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.
Gerry Adams

Freedom, Others, Irish

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
Gerry Adams

Struggle, Past, Wanted

In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.
Gerry Adams

Power, Both, Irish

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.
Gerry Adams

Peace, Process, Taken

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
Gerry Adams

Freedom, Courage, Struggle

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
Gerry Adams

Leadership, Time, Forward

But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.
Gerry Adams

Strong, Hold, View

But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
Gerry Adams

Peace, Else, Process

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
Gerry Adams

Equality, Patience, Political

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
Gerry Adams

Leadership, Peace, Equality

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
Gerry Adams

Become, Republican, Potential

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
Gerry Adams

Courage, Future, Past

The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.
Gerry Adams

Change, Support, Growing

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

Days, Gone, Forever

The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.
Gerry Adams

Time, Good, Last

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
Gerry Adams

Change, Equality, Union

The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.
Gerry Adams

Forward, Political, Winning

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Nationality: Irish

Type: Politician

Born: October 6, 1948

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