Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadiis an Iranian lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's, children's, and refugee rights. She was the first ever Iranian to receive the prize...
NationalityIranian
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth21 June 1947
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I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.
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In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a women who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.
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Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.
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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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Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.
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No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.
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Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.
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The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
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I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of innocent people. Those who are invoking cultural relativism are really using that as an excuse for violating human rights and to put a cultural mask on the face of what they're doing.
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Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.
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The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years ... [some have tried] to see the world through the eyes of their predecessors and to deal with the problems and difficulties of the existing world by virtue of the values of the ancients... [others] seek to go forth in step with world developments and not lag behind the caravan of civilization, development and progress.
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When more and more people want something, it becomes easier to achieve that goal.
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Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.
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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.