to build political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and win support for those goals internationally.
Essentially this issue is about the need for the British government to both accept responsibility for what has happened and what is happening and also to end political policing.
We have unfulfilled commitments on human rights, which the government said they were going to put in place, in terms of democratic rights and cultural matters.
courageous and confident initiative.
We are in this particular situation because once again unionists threaten the institutions and Dr. Reid moved to accommodate them.
have said that the gear that they put away matched the estimates that the intelligence agencies of both (British and Irish) governments provided.
You asserted the legitimacy of the right of the people of this island to freedom and independence. Many of your comrades made the ultimate sacrifice.
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.
But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.
One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.
It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.
Today, I am delighted that the Nobel prize has gone to Ireland. I hope today's announcement will act as a catalyst to the next part of the peace process.
There was good work done today. Let's continue to do good work.
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
If they don't talk, they should not walk. So we would take issue with the Orangemen trying to force themselves into neighborhoods. And if they genuinely wanted to march, if they genuinely were concerned about what they describe as a religious occasion, then the Christ-like thing to do would be to go along and talk to the people.
These carefully staged tantrums and rehearsed walk-outs aren't the way to bring about a settlement.
This is a marvelous group of women.
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