Bobby Sands Trust - The trust was formed after the 1981 Republican hunger strike to achieve political status. Written records, pictures, videoclips and downloadable posters.
Hunger Strike Commemorative Web Project - Profiles of the ten men who died in 1981, plus historical background information, the diary of Bobby Sands, and links to relevant documents and other hunger strike sites around the world.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Hungerstrikes Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Hungerstrikes
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hungerstrikes To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Hungerstrikes
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Hungerstrikes Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Hungerstrikes
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Hungerstrikes Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Hungerstrikes
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Hungerstrikes A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Hungerstrikes
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Hungerstrikes For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Hungerstrikes
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Hungerstrikes To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hungerstrikes
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Hungerstrikes If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Hungerstrikes
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Hungerstrikes "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Hungerstrikes
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Hungerstrikes Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Hungerstrikes
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Hungerstrikes Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Hungerstrikes
