Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment. Gerry Adams Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice. Gerry Adams Read Quote
We can be revisionist, and that’s a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn’t airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time. Gerry Adams Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence. Gerry Adams Read Quote
If I didn’t forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don’t forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage. Gerry Adams Read Quote
You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened. Gerry Adams Read Quote
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 Read Quote
