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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe 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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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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 government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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What is not recorded is not remembered.
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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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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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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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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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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’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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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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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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