[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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More Akbar Ganji Quotes
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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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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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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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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances,
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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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.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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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 U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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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 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 went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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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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