We must see our present fight right through to the very end.

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

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

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

We must see our present fight right through to the very end.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.

Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal