List of John Hume Quotes

Every Child Growing Up Will Look To Their Parents, My Mother And My Father. My Grandmother Lived With Us. I Picked Up Quite A Bit Of Family Lore And History From Her, Which Was Interesting.

In Working Class Districts, You Had Several Families Living Together In The One House, And It Was Very Difficult To Get A House, Because The Politicians Who Controlled Housing Were Doing So In A Very Discriminatory Fashion.

I Went To The Local Schools, The Local State Primary School, And Then To The Local Grammar School. A Secondary School, Which Technically Was An Independent School, It Was Not Part Of The State Educational System.

The Only Thing I Shall Talk About Is My Sporting Achievements At School. My Primary Sporting Achievement At School Was That I Dodged Games For Two Complete Years And Was Well Through The Third Year Before They Discovered That I Had Completely Avoided All Games.

These Are The Influences That Everybody Has. Some Individuals Might Stand Out Because Of One Thing Or Another, But Whether One's Perception As A Child Of What Was Important Or Not Is Accurate, I Don't Know.

The Violence Had Broken Out In Both Sides, But Our Philosophy As A Party Was Very, Very Clear.

Like Everybody At That Age, I Read An Awful Lot Of Pulp Fiction. But At The Same Time, I Also Read Quite A Bit Of History And Read That As Much For Pleasure As Part Of A Curriculum.

Therefore They Should Come To The Table And Reach An Agreement That Would Protect Their Identity.

My Father Was A Civil Servant, Fairly Sort Of Middle Ranking, Low To Middle Ranking. He Worked Almost Entirely In What Was Then Called Administrative Labour, Dealing With Employment And Unemployment Issues

My Father Was Unemployed And I Was The Eldest Of Seven Children. We Were Very Poor. And When You Ask How Did We Support Ourselves, The Only Funding That We Had Was Unemployment Payments.

I Grew Up In Derry, Of Course, And It Was - Derry Was The Worst Example Of Northern Ireland's Discrimination.

In My Opinion, What Changed The Situation Eventually - And, Of Course, It Took A Lot Of Time To Change It, Things Like That Don't Change In A Week Or A Fortnight - Was The New Educational System.