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"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."
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"The world will never know you because you did not work hard enough."
"The problem is not that we don't recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don't want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it."
"Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause."
"Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil."
"Recognize yourself as a person who has received a precious gift from your creator."
"When you develop your gift, you will be well known."
"We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done."
"But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed."
"She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere."
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"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."
"The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity."
"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."
"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 My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."
"Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity."
"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion."
"My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues."
"The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear."
"I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination."
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