Quotes by Bernadette Devlin - Page 1

Free love is too expensive.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Love
Free Love
Love Is
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Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Courage
Daughter
Encouraging
Inspirational
Smile
Time
Dare
Struggle
Today
Yesterday
Win
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The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Ireland
Singers
Song
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I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Interesting
Not Good Enough
Saint
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We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Born
Grows
Unjust
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To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
May
Else
Everything Else
Gain
Having
Lose
Necessary
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Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Beads
Catholic
Rosary
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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Inspirational
Women
Hippie
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I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Easy
Imagine
Thinking
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My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Done
Function
Life Is
Parliament
Politician
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It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Letting Go
Long
Parliament
People
Discovered
Horrors
Letting
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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Children
Diversity
Justice
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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 / Political Figure
Jesus
Christ
Hate
Holy
Ireland
Jesus Christ
Names
People
Interesting Thing
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... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.
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Religion
Bitterness
Christianity
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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.
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Bored
Denied
Horse
Serving
Silence
Subject Matter
Bar
Horses
Subject
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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.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Church
Doctrine
Use
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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 / Political Figure
Jobs
Bottom
British
Letting Go
Organized
Parliament
Sacrifice
Politics Me People
Job
Allowed
Basically
Coming
Effective
Let Go
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I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
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School
Thumbs
Years
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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. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Equality
Church
Conservatism
Force
Influence
Ireland
Massive
Mother
Path
Security
Among
Obstacle
Ranks
Threats
Traitors
Ward
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It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Prejudice
Racism
Should Have
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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.
Bernadette Devlin / Political Figure
Technology
Country
Europe
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