Gerry Adams Quotes on People (13 Quotes)

People waking up this morning, apart from that very large number of people who suffered grievously in the course of the conflict, I'm sure feel in their bones that we're all better off for this.

Your people are being killed our people are being killed. We have to get beyond all his.

I condemn the bomb attacks in London this morning. I have sent a message of sympathy and solidarity to Mr. Blair and the London mayor, Ken Livingstone. On behalf of Sinn Fein I offer my sincere condolences to the victims and the families of those killed and injured and to the people of London.

There is no evidence to back that up. And, on the contrary, the IRA, in a number of high-profile statements, have made it very, very clear that people should not be intimidated.

Having been in America as recently as November, there will be some people clearly who support the peace process, who support Sinn Fein, who support the Irish cause, who will not agree with me going to Cuba, but I think they will accept and understand it.

You asserted the legitimacy of the right of the people of this island to freedom and independence. Many of your comrades made the ultimate sacrifice.

There is bound to be distrust here. People have been hurt, people have been killed. There is bound to be suspicion. There is bound to be hatred. There is bound to be fear. And the way to resolve that is to seize that opportunity and build on that opportunity and widen the space which has been created.

I don't blame the people in the airports for that. I've raised it directly with the White House and the State Department. They have not told us we're on the terrorist watch list. If we are, surely we shouldn't be.

Well, even if it should, and I certainly want to see an end to the IRA and an end to all of the armed groups, simply saying it and demanding it isn't going to achieve it. You have to look at what has worked. What hasn't worked is marginalizing people, demonizing people, criminalizing people, repressing people, fighting with people,

I see no reason whatsoever why there should be British troops in any part of my country, and particularly in the almost eighth year of two IRA decisions, why people should have more contact with British troops than they had previously,

It means that Unionists who are for the Good Friday Agreement must end their ambivalence, ... And it is a direct challenge to the DUP to decide if they want to put the past behind them and make peace with the rest of the people of this island.

If they don't talk, they should not walk, ... So we would take issue with the Orangemen trying to force themselves into neighborhoods. And if they genuinely wanted to march, if they genuinely were concerned about what they describe as a religious occasion, then the Christ-like thing to do would be to go along and talk to the people.

People need to calm down. What did people expect the IRA to say