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.
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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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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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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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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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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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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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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Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
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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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Democracy is the best revenge.
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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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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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