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"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness."

"The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will."

"The Lord is our hope. The Lord is our help."
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"Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants."


"We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure."


"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."


"No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government."


"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."


"My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam."


"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."


"Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization."
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