32 Quotes by Bernadette Devlin

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ...

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

I’m not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn’t my business.

The Irish aren’t great singers, but they have great songs.

I think my life will always be worth living, though I don’t imagine it being very easy.