Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• I lived in countries that had no democracy... so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don't know what it is not to have freedom.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Country, Luxury, Democracy

• I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, through their anxious avoidance of criticizing non-Western countries, they trap the people who represent these cultures in a state of backwardness. The experts may have the best of intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Country, Differences, Racism

  "Excerpt: 'The Caged Virgin'", www.npr.org. May 4, 2006.

• I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Country, Broken, Daydreaming

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Why are Muslims so hypersensitive?'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.

• They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Country, Chance, Immigrants

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