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The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

— Gerry Adams

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Source: in Text of a Speech by Gerry Adams, then President of Sinn Féin, to a Sinn Féin selection convention in Navan, County Meath, CAIN in the University of Ulster, 1 December 2004.
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