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John Hume

Before the arrival of the Cre...

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

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John Hume

People were so keen to get in...

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.

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John Hume

I grew up in Derry, of course...

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

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John Hume

Every child growing up will l...

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.

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John Hume

They divided the city into th...

They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.

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John Hume

The only thing I shall talk a...

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.

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John Hume

I went to the local schools, ...

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.

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John Hume

My father was a civil servant,...

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

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John Hume

When people are divided, the o...

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement

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John Hume

The violence had broken out in...

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear

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John Hume

We're much closer together in ...

We're much closer together in the world today than we ever were in the psot. Given that it is a much smaller world, we are in a stronger position to shape that world. As we enter the new century, and anew millennium, let us create a world in which there is no longer any war or any conflict.

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John Hume

I went to the local schools, t...

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.

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John Hume

The civil rights movement in t...

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about

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John Hume

The basic policy of the Britis...

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity

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John Hume

The only thing I shall talk ab...

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

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John Hume

Like everybody at that age, I ...

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.

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John Hume

They believed that Britain was...

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date

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John Hume

These are the influences that ...

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

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John Hume

In working class districts, yo...

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.

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John Hume

In my opinion, what changed th...

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.

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