We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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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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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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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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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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.
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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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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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Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.
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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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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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