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Bernadette Devlin
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“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
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“I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.”
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“Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe's oddest countries. Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody's lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.”
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“But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.”
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“Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom.”
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“Free love is too expensive.”
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“The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.”
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“Policemen always call me a stupid bitch, and I deny that I'm stupid.”
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“There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents — if the term is to be used at all.”
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“I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.”
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“Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.”
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“Everyone's struggle for justice usually begins with one's own suffering.”
Bernadette Devlin, Irish politician, activist
(1947)
Full name: Josephine Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.