We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
AKBAR GANJII am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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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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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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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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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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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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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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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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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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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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