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Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

Benazir Bhutto

Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
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Asia Government Military
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Political Religion Religious
As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother.
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Issues Leader Mother
In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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Book Jail Way
Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value – democracy.
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Democracies Helping Others Teamwork
To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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Empowering Leader Women
The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man’s place in the Islamic society.
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Country Mosque Religion Voting Women
Democracy is the best revenge.
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Democracy Freedom Revenge
We learned at an early age that it was men’s interpretation of our religion that restricted women’s opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception.
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Islam Men Opportunity
It’s never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
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Done Mean Political
Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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Mean Needs Peace
All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
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Calling Different Years
My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism – certainly not politics.
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Diplomats Father Jobs
I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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Men People Religion
Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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Military Pakistan
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation – namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
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Foundation Justice All Liberty

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