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If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage.

From Gerry Adams

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

From Gerry Adams

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

From Gerry Adams

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

From Gerry Adams

But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.

From Gerry Adams

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.

From Gerry Adams

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

From Gerry Adams

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.

From Gerry Adams

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.

From Gerry Adams

The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.

From Gerry Adams

Gerry Adams

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