Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won’t let it be free.
BENAZIR BHUTTOOppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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We learned at an early age that it was men’s interpretation of our religion that restricted women’s opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
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Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
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Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto’s death, her son’s brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, “My mother always said, ‘ Democracy is the best revenge.
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The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
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I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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