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Bernadette Devlin Quotes

Type: Politician Quotes Category: Irish Politician Quotes Year of Birth: 1947 Nationality: Irish Find on Amazon: Bernadette Devlin Related Authors: John Hume John Bruton Gerry Adams Jim Walsh Martin McGuinness Boyle Roche Dick Spring

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. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence. Bernadette Devlin Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. Bernadette Devlin I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence. Bernadette Devlin It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament. Bernadette Devlin My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done. Bernadette Devlin One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do! Bernadette Devlin To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette Devlin To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette Devlin To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette Devlin Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. Bernadette Devlin

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