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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.