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“In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Teaching #Islamic #Race
“Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Teamwork #Support #Together
“I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Pakistan #October #Return
“A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Opportunity #Rights #People
“You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Men #Ideas #Exile
“Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Agendas #Aim
“Democracy is the best revenge.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Revenge #Freedom #Democracy
“Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Democracy #Terrorism #Force
“America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#America #Freedom Of Speech #Democracy
“I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Dream #Pro Life #Development
“Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Religious #Responsibility #People
“The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Opportunity #Government #People
“Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Peace #Mean #Want
“To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Empowering #Leader #Compromise
“I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Mother #Brother #Husband
“I don't fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me. It makes me weepy... but I don't think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Mother #Father #Thinking
“My father always would say, "My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister", but it's not what I wanted to do. I would say, "No, Papa, I will never go into politics." As I've said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me ... But I accepted the responsibility and I've never wavered in my commitment.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Life #Daughter #Father
“I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Girl #Oxford #People
“The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Party #Men #Political
“The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Eye #Hijab #Beholder
“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.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Mother #Issues #Leader
“And also I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Believe #Shock #Humans
“Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Voice #Departure #Misery
“What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Party #Political #Important
“Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#War #Fighting #Enemy
“Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Lying #Heart #People
“I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Father #Rain #Thinking
“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.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Mean #America #People
“It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Taken #Giving #People
“No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.”
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Want #Prime #Ministers

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