I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about