Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.

When there is enough oxygen in the air for everyone, no one is going to take to violence in order to access it. But if there were not enough of it for everyone then people would result to violence in order to get it. Therefore we have to improve the conditions to have better human beings.

Europe clearly is the only place where people can speak up critically, and this is a unique cultural value.

I have never had a governmental position, and I will never accept such a position.

North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.