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On the alternative to violence: Your country overthrew colonial rule because its people were forced to. Armed struggle is a response to what the Establishment is doing. The British soldiers come with weapons. They don't come and say, "Let's try to sort this out." Their political masters don't say, "Let's try some other way."
They use force, they use all the instruments of war. The I.R.A., as a manifestation of the people's resistance, is a response to that.