I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.

But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.

I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.