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.

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

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.

No sun - no moon! / No morn - no noon - / No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day -

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

If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly be changed... We have asserted that we are political prisoners, and everything about out country - our arrests, interrogations, trials, and prison conditions - show that we are politically motivated.