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If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
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Freedom Liberty Offend
I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
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Argument Judgment Victim
No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that’s what the West is all about.
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Belief Impose Oneself Thinking
I call myself a liberal – a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
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Call Liberal Myself
There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance.
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Difference Huge Tolerance
In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Adamant Brother Islam
I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.
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Death Life Myself People
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
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Conscience Freedom Speech
People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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Death Injustice Kind Live People Silence Time
I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.
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Hate Myself Religion Remember
I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form.
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Difference God Islam Purity Religion Submission
Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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Family Parents True Yourself
I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents’ culture.
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Believe Culture Family Islam Life Myself Parents Western
Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn’t make it easier.
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Believe Easy Reality
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God’s holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.
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Book Constitution Democracy Holy Life Privacy State
What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.
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Agreement Finding Myself Stage Stand

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