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 GANJIAll manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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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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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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Supporters of the national front, Mosaddeq, believe that in Iran, we don’t have a nationalities problem, we don’t have an ethnic problem.
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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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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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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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There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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