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• ‟ I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

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• ‟ When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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