Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that the true victory over oppression is found in the joy and future happiness of the next generation.
Bobby Sands emphasizes that instead of seeking personal revenge against oppressors, the ultimate form of revenge lies in the happiness and laughter of our children. It illustrates the idea that nurturing a future filled with joy and hope for the next generation is the greatest form of defiance against those who cause suffering and oppression.
In practice
During a speech about overcoming adversity, this quote could illustrate the importance of investing in future generations.
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.
I am dying not just to attempt to end the barbarity of H-blocks or to gain the rightful recognition of political prisoners, but primarily because what is lost here is lost for the Republic.
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.
They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.
There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.
My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the people stood by us. The people not only opened the doors of their homes to lend us a hand, but they opened their hearts to us. I learned that without the people, we could not survive and I knew that I owed them everything.
To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it for a life of communion with God.
Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.
But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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