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

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.

I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.

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

Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part.