"Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Malalai Joya

#Gun Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Bombs Quotes

“I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.”
“Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.”
“You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down.”
“I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that every time an execution is carried out in the United States, up to 75 murders are prevented the next year.”
“Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?”
“I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.”
“We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.”
“I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades”

Source : "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.

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