Bernadette Devlin
Bernadette Devlin
Josephine Bernadette McAliskey, usually known as Bernadette Devlin or Bernadette McAliskey, is an Irish socialist and republican political activist. She served as a Member of the UK Parliament from 1969 to 1974 for the Mid Ulster constituency. She lost her seat to John Dunlop of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, after coming third in a four-sided contest in the general election of February 1974...
courage time struggle
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
unjust born grows
We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
catholic rosary beads
Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ...
done life-is politician
My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
gain lose necessary worth
To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
should-have racism prejudice
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.
church use half
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.
horse bored silence
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.