Shirin Neshat Quotes

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

There is no power above people power.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

Opinion and protest are the life breath of democracy—even when it blows heavy.

We have the freedom of speech. We are able to hold hands in protest and stand up for what we believe in and have people hear what you have to say.

The fight for democracy is a long-term battle.

It's interesting to me that the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, and in the marches, people were singing 'Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.'

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

All over this world people are standing up for freedom.

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

We did not have a revolution in order to have a democracy.