Democracy is the best revenge.
BENAZIR BHUTTODemocracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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The best revenge is democracy.
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The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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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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Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It’s not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman’s ability to make everyone…feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness.
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The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
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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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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
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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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Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
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I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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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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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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Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won’t let it be free.
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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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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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