59 Quotes by Manal al-Sharif



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    A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing.

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    Inside my mind, there was a growing sense of contradiction between what I heard in sermons and what I saw all around me.

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    Don’t be afraid. Fear won’t prevent death, it prevents life.” – NAGUIB MAHFOUZ.

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    It is too soon to say how many of my generation may have learned to despise injustice as a consequence of the beatings, verbal abuse, and general cruelty that we suffered as children. But I know that I have, and I know that I will carry that lesson with me always.

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    When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

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    I almost got kidnapped trying to find a taxi in the street. In Saudi Arabia, it's not normal for a woman to walk in the street alone, and I don't cover my face, so I am an open target.

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    My message to the world is to surrender your ego: try not to think that you are not as fortunate as some people or inferior or not as good as someone else.

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