Say Nothing Quotes

You know, when it comes to some of the things that we did in those days, for some of us it’s easier to say nothing. To keep our memories locked away. You can call me a difficult woman. But I couldn’t live with the silence.

When you join the IRA, there is always this question: how far are you willing to go? Was I willing to put a bomb on the street? I was. Was I willing to die on hunger strike? I thought I was.

We’re not pleading guilty. We can’t plead guilty. We don’t recognize the court.

They could beat us, they could shoot us, they could drive their tanks over us, but the one thing they could never get us to do was talk. Silence was our power.

The thing about your 30s is, everybody’s moved on. You get a job, settle down. People become respectable. Truth is, I never thought I’d live long enough to have to deal with it.

Sometimes the only way through trauma is by giving into it.

Sometimes people get in the way. That can’t be helped.[to Dolours[mqqi]

People get married during war. With peace they take their time.

It was quite a happy childhood. Until I turned 16 and decided that my whole family was mental. We were Catholic in West Belfast, which meant we lived on the shite side of town. It was a segregated society. Everything was rigged. Jobs, housing, voting rights, it all went to the Protestants. If you were Catholic, you had two choices. You could live as second class, or you could get the hell out.

I did things for you. Not just the bombing. Because I thought they would mean something. For what you’ve accomplished I wouldn’t have traded a good breakfast.[to Gerry]

Gerry made it very clear. He said it to the press. He said it to the lads. He even said it to the victims. You know, if Ireland is ever to be at peace, there’s a price to be paid, you know…[Dolours Price]What was that?[Mackers]Our silence.[Dolours Price]

Anyone can be the majority. It just depends how you draw the line.