"There’s an inner thing in every man, Do you know this thing my friend? It has withstood the blows of a million years,…"

"I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroke…"

"Son," he said, "one day he caught himself on one of his own traps and no one would assist him to get free. Hist own p…"

"The days were long and lonely. The sudden and total deprivation of such basic human necessities as exercise and fresh…"

"I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul."

"They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will…"

"There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish …"

"It wept by the waters of Babylon, And when all men were a loss, It screeched in writhing agony, And it hung bleeding …"

"Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee, But it will come to rise again."

"It is found in every light of hope, It knows no bounds nor space It has risen in red and black and white, It is there…"