Michael’s Reviews > Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland > Status Update

"Indeed it could occasionally seem that support for the armed struggle was more fervent in Boston or Chicago than it was in Belfast or Derry. The romantic idyll of a revolutionary movement is easier to sustain when there is no danger that one's own family members might get blow to pieces on a trip to the grocery store." It's almost like justifying violence is generally bad and comes from a place of ignorance.