Asma Jahangir Quotes

The Musharraf government has declared martial law to settle scores with lawyers and judges. Hundreds of innocent Pakistanis have been rounded up. Human rights activists, including women and senior citizens, have been beaten by police. Judges have been arrested and lawyers battered in their offices and the streets.

Asma Jahangir

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: pakistani
  • Birth: January 27, 1952 - February 11, 2018

Topics

WomenPoliceGovernmentLawLawyers

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

JoBeth Williams

TexasConnectionEarthI Was Raised

I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

Joan Smalls

HeightAlwaysEveryoneHalfFoot

The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.

Tony Evans

ChoiceRaceBirthIssue

Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that's in the back of my mind a bit.

Robert Englund

TravelDeathMindMeYouBack

We're criminalizing economic inability to stay out of the system. Women get penalized more than men for the same crime; blacks get penalized more than whites for the same crime. We need to bring out more into the light, because it's not fair... I applaud Colin Kaepernick for speaking out.

Martina Navratilova

WomenLightMenCrimeMoreNeed

The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.

Micky Dolenz

SongwriterThingProlific

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

Dick Gregory

HomeHateSchoolGoShameNever

Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.

Clive Cussler

WritingBookDoingYouThingsGot

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.

Cindy Sheehan

TimeWarHappyWayPresidentReason

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.

Annie Besant

LifeEvolutionSpiritMatterSame

I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.

Sean Penn

MyselfPoliticsThinkPoliticalYou

At Andreessen Horowitz, we talk about the notion of being 'too hungry to eat.' That's to say, we often see startups that are so entrenched in the product that the founders forget they need muscle to grow.

Scott Weiss

GrowForgetSayTalkMuscleNeed

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