Bobby Sands
Bobby Sands
Robert Gerard Sands, commonly known as Bobby Sands, was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth9 March 1954
CountryIreland
ghetto boys class
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
fighting ends
We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
men might height
All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.
struggle labels criminals
Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal
people republic may
I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.
heart moon hunger-strike
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
happiness children revenge
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
play republican young
Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.
broken want spirit
They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
lying criminals crime
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.
struggle true-identity law
They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.
fighting years might
I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime..
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You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.
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There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.