Independence Movement Quotes

“To see a man as your enemy, you needed to hate him, and while it was easy to hate a man who fought you with bullets and bombs, it was bloody difficult to hate a man who opposed you by appealing to your own moral compass.”
― Abir Mukherjee, Smoke and Ashes

“We may have to bring along our Unionist friends by considering less radical, federal solutions on the longer road to full independence. The movement has been derailed by many other things besides identity politics: cowardice, personality cult, unwise alliances, middle-management over-reach, a bureaucratic, form-obsessed culture of mutual distrust, self-imposed busy-work, Holyrood bubbles and Westminster troughers. It will be righted on its tracks as soon as we can remember that we can also build movements without the politicians and institutions that currently divide us through increasingly morbid and inward-looking agendas. Until they can be trusted to represent us again, it may be time for artists to wean themselves off institutional support, at least where they can, through the direct engagement of audiences, readers and students that the digital age offers, and through private sponsorship and investment.”
― Don Paterson, Irish Pages, Vol. 12, No. 2: Scotland