Quotes from Iran Awakening

“ليس الدين مايعيق المرأة , بل الإملاءات الانتقائية التي يقوم بها الذين يتمنون عزل النساء عن العالم”
― Shirin Ebadi, quote from Iran Awakening

“ولدنا لنعاني لأننا ولدنا في العالم الثالث . المكان و الزمان مفروضان علينا . ما من شيء يمكن فعله سوى التحلي بالصبر”
― Shirin Ebadi, quote from Iran Awakening

“When the gravity of death first touched me, I'd found preoccupation with the minutiae of daily life meaningless. If we ultimately die, and turn to dust in the ground, should it ever truly upset us if the floor hasn't been swept quite recently enough.”
― Shirin Ebadi, quote from Iran Awakening

“ليس مهما ما إذا كان مضمون الهتاف صحيحا أم غير صحيح ما إذا كنتما تؤمنان به أو لا. قراركما بالهتاف معه ليس مقياسا لالتزامكما بالعدالة أو الحرية أو أي من المبادئ النبيلة التي يدعيها احيانا تكون الشعارات الجذرية بمثابة الفخ يهتف بها المندسون حتى يمكن لصق تهمة السعي إلى الإطاحة بالنظام بمحموعة من الطلاب الذين يحتجون غلى الح...ملة على الصحافة في احيان اخرى لاتكون فخاخا على الإطلاق بل موقفا بائسا يعبر عنه شخص شجاع

لكن كيف يمكنكما أن تعرفا؟ هدفكما هو تجنب التحول إلى بيادق,وتجنب أن تجرا الى المشكلات بسبب فضولكما أو لاعتقادكما أنكما تريان التاريخ يصنع أمامكما”
― Shirin Ebadi, quote from Iran Awakening

“We adapted to being at war, just as we had adapted to the chaos and upheaval of revolution. How amazing and yet tragic it is, I thought, the human instinct for”
― Shirin Ebadi, quote from Iran Awakening

“It is not important whether what he is chanting is true or not, whether you believe in it or not. Your decision to chant along with him is no measure of your commitment to justice or freedom or whatever lofty principle is at hand. Sometimes, radical slogans are a trap. They are shouted by infiltrators so that a group of students protesting a press crackdown can be depicted as seeking to overthrow the regime. Sometimes they are not traps at all but the frustrated stand of a brave person. But how are you to know? Your objective is to avoid being a pawn, to avoid getting dragged into trouble because you are curious, or believe you are seeing history being made." They”
― Shirin Ebadi, quote from Iran Awakening

“Under the Iranian code, the worth of a woman’s life equals half of a man’s, a point that often leads to grotesque legal judgments that effectively punish the victims. In this instance, the judge ruled that the ‘blood money’ for the two men was worth more than the life of the murdered nine-year-old girl, and he demanded that her family come up with thousands of dollars to finance their executions.”
― Shirin Ebadi, quote from Iran Awakening

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