Shirin Ebadi Quotes

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• It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Ideas, Action

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• If you can't eliminate injustice, at least tell everyone about it.

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  Injustice, Ifs

  Shirin Ebadi (2011). “The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny”, p.252, Kales Press

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• Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

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  Rights, Civilization, Standards

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

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  Mother, Home, Men

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants.

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  Rights, Law, Islam

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

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  Violence, Lasting Love, Lasting

  "Shirin 'Ebadi – Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate". Interview with Amir Taheri, www.memri.org. October 19, 2003.

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• democracy ... is not something that occurs overnight. It is not a gift delivered on a golden tray. Democracy is a long process of fighting, challenging accepted ideas, and perpetually striving for freedom. Like a seed that has to be watered every day to become a flower, democracy needs constant attention and care.

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  Flower, Fighting, Ideas

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• The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

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  Rights, Ideas, Cultural Relativism

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• When more and more people want something, it becomes easier to achieve that goal.

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  Want Something, People, Goal

  "Interview with Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi". IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. October 21, 2003.

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• When there is enough oxygen in the air for everyone, no one is going to take to violence in order to access it. But if there were not enough of it for everyone then people would result to violence in order to get it. Therefore we have to improve the conditions to have better human beings.

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  Air, Oxygen, Order

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Those who don't understand any language other than the language of force and violence don't respect human dignity. They seek violence because they will be irrelevant without it. We should not go their way.

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  Way, Violence, Dignity

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• We demand a non-violent world where human security is the basis of our common global security. People have the right to live in a world where the basic needs of all peoples are addressed. No more military attacks. No more war.

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  Military, War, People

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• How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

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  Cultural Relativism, Hunger, Hungry

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, September 1, 2004.

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• Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.

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  Thinking, Reason, Discouraging

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

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  Rights, Civilization, Fruit

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• People are fundamentally good. But conditions deteriorate them.

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  People, Conditions

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I am the voice of the people in Iran whose voices are silent and whose demands cannot be heard by the rest of the world.

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  Iran, Voice, People

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

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  Views, Pressure, Oppression

  "Shirin 'Ebadi - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate". Interview to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, www.memri.org. October 24, 2003.

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• The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.

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  Country, Islamic, Differences

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or her country of origin, religion, descent, or any other ground.

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  Country, Hurt, Rights

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• There is no "true Islam," just different interpretations.

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  Islam, Different, Different Interpretations

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.

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  Men, Design, Important

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• North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.

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  Rights, Bombs, Human Rights

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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• Unfortunately, the United States and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights. I am referring to the case of the Guantánamo Bay prisoners. This violation of the rights of prisoners has been so unbelievable that the United Nations has reminded the United States repeatedly that the treatment of prisoners should take place according to the preestablished conventions of the United Nations.

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  War, Rights, Government

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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• Unfortunately, violence begets violence. And this is how the war on terrorism seems to be going at this juncture. A lot of people are losing their lives. Many children are losing their parents. Too many houses are being destroyed. And, unfortunately, the arms industry seems to flourish.

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  Children, War, People

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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