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Europe clearly is the only place where people can speak up critically, and this is a unique cultural value.

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Shirin Ebadi
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 21
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Cyrine Abadi
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I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have been much happier than they are right now.
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The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain difficulties... the Iranian youth need more freedom. They are struggling for more freedom and democracy. This commands great respect.
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Certainly, the fight against terrorism is a legitimate fight. And certainly whoever commits terrorism should be brought to justice.
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I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.
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Iran is a rich country, and if the people of this country are poor, it's because of the wrong policies of the government.
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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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While living in exile I have become the loudspeaker for the people of Iran.
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Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one.
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When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.
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I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.
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Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.
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Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.
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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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Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.
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People are fundamentally good. But conditions deteriorate them.
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Unfortunately the situation of human rights in Iran isn't improving. Some of the newspapers were shut down and the government didn't try to reopen the newspapers that were shut down before. And the laws are as bad as before.
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The international community can't trust such a government. If the government of Iran wants the international community to believe in what it says, it should try to bring true, pure democracy into the country. The political solution to the energy issue or the nuclear case is democracy in Iran.
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No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either
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I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of innocent people. Those who are invoking cultural relativism are really using that as an excuse for violating human rights and to put a cultural mask on the face of what they're doing.
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The diplomatic relations start when the two sides get a bit closer to each other, but U.S and Iran, they are drifting apart.
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