Bobby Sands

Activist

1954-03-09 – 1981-05-05

Bobby Sands was an Irish republican activist and member of the Provisional IRA who became internationally known during the 1981 hunger strike. He was elected as a Member of Parliament during the strike and died in prison.

Books by Bobby Sands

One day in my life
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Bobby Sands
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Skylark sing your lonely song
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Quotes by Bobby Sands

There is that much to be done that no select or small portion of people can do; only the greater mass of the Irish nation will ensure the achievement of a Socialist Republic, and this can only be done by hard work and sacrifice.
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The body doesn't accept the lack of food, and it suffers from the temptation of food and from other aspects which gnaw at it perpetually. The body fights back sure enough, but at the end of the day, everything returns to the primary consideration - that is, the mind.
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I am (even after all the torture) amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. They have not dispirited, conquered, nor demoralised my people, nor will they ever.
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If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly be changed... We have asserted that we are political prisoners, and everything about out country - our arrests, interrogations, trials, and prison conditions - show that we are politically motivated.
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I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken.
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They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
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I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.
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I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
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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.
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