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Vote: | Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. |
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Vote: | I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. |
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Vote: | I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence. |
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Vote: | My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam. |
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Vote: | 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. This way of thinking - this self-certainty - is based on not being educated. |
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Vote: | The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse. |
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Vote: | The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. |
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Vote: | We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. |
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Vote: | What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt. |
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Vote: | When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants. |
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Vote: | Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home. |
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Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شیرین عبادی; born 1947) is an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist. On December 10, 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to receive the prize.
Life and early career Ebadi was born in Hamedan. Her father was Mohammad Ali Ebadi, the city's chief notary public and a professor of commercial law. The family moved to Tehran in 1948.
Ebadi entered the law department of the University of Tehran in 1965, and participated in the entry exam for judges immediately after graduation in 1969. She officially started her career as a judge in March, 1970, after a six-month internship period. She continued her studies in University of Tehran in the meanwhile, and received a master's degree in law in 1971. In 1975, she became the first woman in Iranian law history to head a legislative branch.
Ebadi was assigned to a lower position, actually the same branch's secretary, following the Iranian revolution in 1979, when conservative clerics insisted that judgement is forbidden for women in Islam. After protests by her and other female judges, they were assigned to a little higher position, a "law expert." She finally asked for early retirement when she could not stand her situation.
Because of rejected applications, Ebadi was not able to work as a lawyer until 1993, when she was able to open a lawyer office.
She used the free time to write a few books and many articles in Iranian periodicals, which made her known widely.
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