Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
I met him a few times over the years, but this is my earliest memory of seeing him standing up to the British army during a protest against Internment... R.I.P.
British army officer: "You are trespassing on British government property." John Hume: "You are trespassing in my country." John Hume on Magilligan Strand January 22 1972
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Long time, so much chit... Play the blues