They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

I was set to confront the might of the imperial empire with an M-1 carbine and enough hate to topple the world.

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

Nothing Arsenal said last summer interested me.