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John Hume

"If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless."

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"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."

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"The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer."

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"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."

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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

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"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"

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"A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies."

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"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"

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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."

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"To vote or not... it really doesn't matter it = 1 vote... as for the others with one vote somebody could beat you."

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John Hume
"I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely."

History

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John Hume
"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."

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John Hume
"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."

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John Hume
"Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity."

Agreement

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John Hume
"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."

People

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John Hume
"I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that."

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John Hume
"There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity."

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John Hume
"If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless."

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John Hume
"I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people."

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John Hume
"Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks."

People

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