When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
AKBAR GANJISupporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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