If you can't eliminate injustice, at least tell everyone about it.

Whenever Muslim women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants. It utilizes psychology to say that women are emotional. It utilizes medical science to say that men's brains are formed in such a way that they are better able to understand concepts. These are all hypotheses. None of this has been proven.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

Everyone's condition is different, and the way that each person lives his or her life is different.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

I want to take my American friends back to the end of World War II, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was formulated. A group of thinkers met to come up with ways and means to prevent yet another war. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt played a crucial role in assembling this group of people. And that is why the name of the United States is synonymous with the cause of human rights around the world.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.