We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
AKBAR GANJIThey lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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…
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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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