Asma Jahangir Quotes

There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.

I got beat up my whole life.

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing. I was afraid for many years. We couldn't play in LA for many years. A lot of people got very cynical.

I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.