My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
BENAZIR BHUTTOFreedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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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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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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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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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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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas.
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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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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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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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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