In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
BENAZIR BHUTTOWe 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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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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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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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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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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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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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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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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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