I am only speaking of my own behalf.
AKBAR GANJI
The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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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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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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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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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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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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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 ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran].
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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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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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