Top 75 Quotes & Sayings by Asma Jahangir - Page 2

Organized groups claiming roots in religious ideologies have unleashed an all-pervasive fear of mob violence in many parts of the country.

I have protection. I have police protection. I have personal bodyguards. I have three sets of them. But believe me, this is really psychological for the family. If they want to get me, they can get me. And every time that I have been saved, it's been by coincidence.

The interaction between human rights campaigners from Pakistan and India was a big taboo in the 1980s. When we started traveling to India to increase people-to-people contact between the two nations, we knew that we would face serious repercussions back home.

Agencies must know who they are accountable to. If the agencies know who they are accountable to but we cannot say who they are accountable to, then really it is a very sad situation that is bound to be misused. It is bound to affect human rights.

I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.

I have noticed encouraging signs in the fight against religious intolerance, and I am impressed by the outstanding degree of human rights activism in India.

I think I have lived enough in this country where I can say what I think is true and which is the voice of my conscience.

There was a time that human rights was not even an issue in this country. Then prisoners' rights became an issue.

It is not easy for the courts to control the intelligence agencies. There has to be concerted and coordinated effort on part of the courts, the parliament, and the government.

My father was jailed off and on for seven years.

I don't care what America and Africa think; I am only concerned that the people of this country should be saved from its Army.

Look at the world, all the suffering... Being under house arrest is the least I can sacrifice.

In bonded labour cases, judges would ask me why I had brought those people to the courts who stank. 'You are here precisely for them,' I would respond.

Good or bad people can be democratically elected, but it is always easy to fight for human rights under this system.

The United Nations is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together; and it can be the only place where there can be a melting pot.