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

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.

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

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

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.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

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