John Hume Dead: Quotes On Peace Following Death Of Nobel Peace Prize winner

Northern Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner and politician John Hume has died at the age of 83.

Hume, who had been suffering from dementia for many years, died during the early hours of Monday at Owen Mor nursing home in Derry, Northern Ireland, BBC News reports.

In a statement, Hume’s family reflected on his life and thanked the nursing home for their kindness. “John was a husband, a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and a brother. He was very much loved, and his loss will be deeply felt by all his extended family,” the statement read.

“The care they have shown John in the last months of his life has been exceptional. We can never adequately show them our thanks for looking after John at a time when we could not. The family drew great comfort in being with John again in the last days of his life."

On Monday, the Northern Irish Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), in which Hume was a founding member, reflected on his death in a Twitter post.

“Nobel Laureate and former SDLP Leader John Hume passed away last night. We all live in the Ireland he imagined -- at peace and free to decide our own destiny. Thank you, John,” the statement read.

Hume was known for his peaceful, democratic politics and for the part he played in negotiating the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended the violent uproar in Northern Ireland by uniting Irish republicans and unionists into a power-sharing government.

Hume dedicated his time to finding peaceful solutions that would benefit the people.

Check out some of. Humes’ famous quotes on peace, complied from BrainyQuote, below:

• “I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.”
• “I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland’s discrimination.”
• “When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.”
• “These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one’s perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don’t know.”
• “The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.”
• “They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.”