It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast majority of the Irish people There are those who tell us that the British government will not be moved by armed struggle. As has been said before, the history of Ireland and of British colonial involvement throughout the world tells us that they will not be moved by anything else.

The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government.

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.