"I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor."

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Source : "Exiled writer says: 'I am dying every day in the west'". Interview with Anthony Dias, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

Taslima Nasrin

#Rights Quotes #Giving Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”
“After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.”
“Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.”
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.”

Source : Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin
“Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts; the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of life.”

Source : "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.
“We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.”
“What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesnâ€™t change what I decide to do.”
“The menu of this kitchen will have more than soup; it will serve as an opportunity to explore the vast untapped power of food as a force for participatory democracy, as a means of empowerment for those who have little and as a lens through which we embrace, and in fact relish, our differences but see and live through our commonalities. If you eat, then you are a part of this.”

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