Asma Jahangir quotes

  • The United Nations is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together; and it can be the only place where there can be a melting pot.
    -- Asma Jahangir

    #Government #People #Together

  • It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

  • It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising to obey the law; and as soon as possible we take steps to get some flavors from the government for those who already have more wives than one.'

  • The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

  • The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

  • Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

  • Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

  • Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

  • Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.

  • We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.

  • It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

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