"It is not those who can inflict the most but those that can suffer the most who will conquer."
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Quoted in Pete Hamill, "'It is those that can suffer most who will conquer'" [Review of J. Bowyer Bell's The Secret Army: The IRA], The New York Times (5 September 1971), and in Brian Maye, "An Irishman's Diary on a prophetic play by Terence MacSwiney", The Irish Times (12 November 2014). Some sources replace "conquer" with "prevail"
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Terence MacSwiney
Terence James MacSwiney (Irish: Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne; 28 March 1879 – 25 October 1920) was an Irish playwright, author and politician. He was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920. He was arrested by the British Government on charges of sedition and imprisoned in Brixton Prison. His death there in October 1920 after 74 days on hunger strike brought him and the Irish Republican campaign to international attention.
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