Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
BENAZIR BHUTTODemocracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.
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To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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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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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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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
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The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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It’s quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.
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