The fact that the candidate you're being asked to vote for is at this
moment rotting in an English jail shouldn't put you off! Sure wasn't I one
myself 'til a week ago.
They can jail us. They can shoot us. They can even conscript us. They
can use us as cannon fodder in the sod.
But – But we have a weapon more powerful than any in the whole arsenal
of their British Empire – and that weapon is our refusal. Our refusal to bow to
any order but our own, any institution but our own.
[Pointing to the police]
Our friends in the Royal Irish Constabulary would like to shut me up. Oh
yes, jail me again, shoot me, who knows? And I'd like you to send them a
message. If they shut me up, who'll take my place?
[Crowd: We will!]
Who's going to take my place?
[Crowd: We will!]
I can't hear you. Who'll take my place?! Will they shut you up?!!