Quotes by John Hume - Page 1

Difference is of the essence of humanity.
John Hume / Politician
Differences
Diversity
Essence
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We did not seek ideological confrontation.
John Hume / Politician
Confrontation
Ideological
Seek
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When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.
John Hume / Politician
Agreement
Divided
People
Solution
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That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.
John Hume / Politician
Pursued
Strategy
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If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
John Hume / Politician
English Language
Language
Paisley
Speechless
Would Be
English
Word
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All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.
John Hume / Politician
Differences
Diversity
Race
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I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.
John Hume / Politician
Kids
Leadership
Being A Leader
Helping
Helping People
Leader
People
Very
Being
Never
People Never Thought
Thought
Simply
Terms
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The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.
John Hume / Politician
Both Sides
Broken
Broken Heart
Clear
Party
Philosophy
Sides
Violence
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Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.
John Hume / Politician
Agreement
Identity
Protect
Tables
Reach
Table
Therefore
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I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
John Hume / Politician
Discrimination
Example
Grew
Grew Up
Ireland
Worst
Course
Northern
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The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.
John Hume / Politician
Peace
Respect
People
Rights
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Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
John Hume / Politician
Class
Credit
People
Poor
People Poor Who
Background
Arrival
Banks
Borrow
Working
Union
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I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.
John Hume / Politician
Opportunity
Differences
Grateful
Little Bit
Beyond
Difference
Make A Difference
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I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.
John Hume / Politician
Range
Accurately
Books
Read
Question
Quite A Lot
Widely
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Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.
John Hume / Politician
Age
Curriculum
Fiction
Pleasure
Pulp
Time History Age
Awful Lot
Pulp Fiction
Quite A Bit
Same Time
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The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about
John Hume / Politician
Equality
People
Pregnancy
Rights
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The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.
John Hume / Politician
Equality
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Movement
Sections
Treatment
Civil
Precisely
Rights Movement
Same Thing
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My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.
John Hume / Politician
Children
Eldest
Father
Funding
Poor
Seven
Support
Unemployed
Ask
Did
Payments
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They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.
John Hume / Politician
Catholic
City Council
Council
Divided
Eight
Percent
Population
Representatives
Elected
Ward
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Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.
John Hume / Politician
Children
Growing Up
Interesting
Mother
Lore
Picked
Quite A Bit
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Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.
John Hume / Politician
Council
Ghetto
Housing
Order
People
Public Housing
Situation
Charge
Public
Deliberately
Total
Ensure
Local
Maintained
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People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.
John Hume / Politician
Investment
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Significant
Unemployment
Years
Quite
General
Days
Northern
Pattern
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In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
John Hume / Politician
Changed
Educational
Fortnight
Opinion
Situation
Week
Change Time New
Course
In My Opinion
System
Took
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They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.
John Hume / Politician
Britain
Ireland
Thinking
Use
Violence
Believed
Date
Defending
Interests
Therefore
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My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues
John Hume / Politician
Father
Issues
Unemployment
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My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues.
John Hume / Politician
Administrative
Employment
Issues
Labour
Ranking
Servant
Unemployment
Fairly
Civil
Civil Servant
Dealing
Entirely
Low
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These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.
John Hume / Politician
Accurate
Children
Important
Perception
Individuals
Influences
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In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.
John Hume / Politician
Agreement
Clear
Differences
Institutions
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Party
Philosophy
Side
Coming
Either
Gave
Northern
Respected
Throughout
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I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.
John Hume / Politician
Educational
Grammar
Grammar School
Independent
Primary School
School
Secondary School
Technically
Local
Primary
Secondary
System
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In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.
John Hume / Politician
Class
Fashion
House
Housing
Discriminatory
Districts
Politicians
Several
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There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity
John Hume / Politician
Hands
Mind
Two
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There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.
John Hume / Politician
Hands
Identity
Protect
Discriminating
Politicians
Holding
Objective
Unionist
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The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.
John Hume / Politician
Achievement
Avoided
Games
School
Years
Complete
Discovered
Primary
Shall
The Only Thing
Third
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Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity.
John Hume / Politician
Respect
Differences
Essence
Lying
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The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.
John Hume / Politician
Government
British
British Government
Ireland
Majority
Northern Ireland
People
Policy
United
United Kingdom
Unity
Wanted
Since
Asked
Basic
Else
Happen
Northern
Remain
Something Else
Wished
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We're much closer together in the world today than we ever were in the psot. Given that it is a much smaller world, we are in a stronger position to shape that world. As we enter the new century, and anew millennium, let us create a world in which there is no longer any war or any conflict.
John Hume / Politician
War
Stronger
Together
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