John Hume
John Hume
John Hume, KCSGis an Irish former politician from Derry, Northern Ireland. He was a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, and was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize, with David Trimble...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 January 1937
CountryIreland
agreement people solutions
When people are divided, the only solution is agreement
ghetto order people
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.
rights people united-states
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
philosophy party broken
The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear
agreement identity tables
Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.
differences essence diversity
Difference is of the essence of humanity.
respect peace rights
The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.
philosophy party agreement
In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.
war together stronger
We're much closer together in the world today than we ever were in the psot. Given that it is a much smaller world, we are in a stronger position to shape that world. As we enter the new century, and anew millennium, let us create a world in which there is no longer any war or any conflict.
example discrimination grew
I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
educational school independent
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.
educational opinion week
In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
children perception important
These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know
thinking use violence
They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date