“What we have done today will go down …

“What we have done today will go down in history and in this way we will be more effective in showing the world that we are a peaceful people asking for our civil rights in an orderly manner.”

—Betty Sinclair, as member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA), persuading marchers from Coalisland to Dungannon to sit down rather than confront police, 24/8/1968. Jonathan Bardon, A History of Ulster, Blackstaff Press, 1992, p. 652.