“Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
