#right

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#ashamed #challenge #change #create #culture

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#criticism #culture #especially #in the past #iran

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#democracy #determined #fascism #freedom #fundamentalism

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#deprived #history #iranian #just #past

My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#asian #bit #british #came #could

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#i #i think #narrative #rap #right

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#follow #head #important #keep #right

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#arts #been #every #film-makers #francisco

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people. ↗

— Huey Newton

#collectively #establishment #every #fear #i

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#class #half #i #last #last year