“If we cannot obtain justice through normal channels, then we should do so through the only other effective means at our disposal. There was no danger of violence. Indeed, civil disobedience was a safety valve.”
—Austin Currie, as Nationalist MP, at party conference, after squatting in council house in Caledon, Co. Tyrone, allocated to 19-year-old single Protestant woman, 23/6/1968. The Irish Times, 24/6/1968.
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