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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.

Benazir Bhutto

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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Democracy Government People
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that’s the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community’s best guarantee of stability in Asia.
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Believe Thinking War
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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Accomplish Democracy Generation Goal
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
Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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Difficult Graveyard Jail
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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Dangles Good People Poverty Time Tribal World
What is not recorded is not remembered.
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History Remember
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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Religion Use Women
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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Development Dream Life Pro
No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
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Ministers Prime Want
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 government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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Government Opportunity People
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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Birth Culture Gun Law Military
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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Bhutto Guarantees Way
The next few months are critical to Pakistan’s future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
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Country Fighting Justice
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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Children Father Grief
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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Democracies Democracy Support
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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Able Country Justice
What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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Important Party Political
General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
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Freedom Fundamneatl Giving Needs Wish
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
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Freedom Inspirational Inspiring
A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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Opportunity People Rights
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Competent Contests Election
I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
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Country Dictatorship Military Yoke
Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto’s death, her son’s brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, “My mother always said, ‘ Democracy is the best revenge.
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Mother Revenge Son
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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Enemy Men Unity
All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.
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Addresses Problem Satisfaction

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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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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