Aitzaz Rehman Quotes

I consider myself a woman who is working to understand how spoken and unspoken messages have shaped my experiences and political perspectives. ~ Bushra Rehman

Looking for "the one" is like looking for a unicorn. They don't exist. So you have to glue an ice cream cone to a horse's forehead and take it. ~ Mina Rehman

You are under no obligation to look pretty, least of all someone else's definition of pretty. ~ Mina Rehman

To learn every details of woman behavior is like an endless journey on a bumpy road that has a starting but limits are infinite, rather undefined. ~ Mosiur Rehman

The most important time in life is the present. ~ Aitzaz Ahsan

For as long as I remember, you've been my lifeline. Every possible future I've imagined, you've always been in it. Funny how I always imagined happily-ever-afters as if we were living in a fairy tale. ~ Mina Rehman

No one ever understands a woman fully ~ Mosiur Rehman

You have always been, and will always be, you. ~ Mina Rehman

This is the real work of woman of color feminism: to resist acquiescence to fatality and guilt, to become warriors of conscience and action who resist death in all its myriad manifestations: poverty, cultural assimilation, child abuse, motherless mothering, gentrification, mental illness, welfare cuts, the prison system, racial profiling, immigrant and queer bashing, invasion and imperialism at home and at war.

To fight any kind of war, Kahente Horn-Miller writes. "The Biggest single requirement is fighting spirit." I thought much of this as I read Colonize This! since this collection appears in print at a time of escalating world-wide war--In Colombia, Afghanistan, Palestine. But is there ever a time of no-war for women of color? Is there ever a time when our home (our body, our land of origin) is not subject to violent occupation, violent invasion? If I retain any image to hold the heart-intention of this book, it is found in what Horn-Miller calls the necessity of the war dance. This book is one rite of passage, one ceremony of preparedness on the road to consciousness, on the "the war path of greater empowerment. ~ Bushra Rehman

No other task in this world is as difficult as understanding a woman and her mind. ~ Mosiur Rehman

living for others is a living that Allah loves. ~ Hameed Ur Rehman

So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, "If we can find the trillions [of dollars] we're finding for conflict whether there's been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money that's required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy." ~ Amy Goodman

I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result ~ Aitzaz Ahsan

When the smoothness of the pages of a newly purchased book comes to your hands, it is evident that the book is well-read. ~ Mosiur Rehman

Should we only look ourselves?' Rehman said finally. 'Aren't humans better than animals who think only of their own hunger and thirst and feed just their own children? ~ Farahad Zama

promulgation of transfixed senses to circumnavigate total deeds brings forth everlasting preservation with augmented courage ~ Abdul Rehman

She can't move forward or backward. She is stuck in time. A constant. ~ Mina Rehman

We want to be special
for being important.
But, sometimes...
We become important
for being special. ~ Abdur-Rehman Qadeer

the worst subsistence humanism promotes lies in refugee of denigration on mere inventions for their own brothers ~ Abdul Rehman

People do crazy things. Mostly because they don't realize how harmful those things can really be. ~ Mina Rehman

Beleif Makes the person Stronger ~ Saif Rehman

Travel is the Experience of life ~ Saif Rehman

Strive to be kind to each other's whirlwind girl. Strive to remember that each one of us is precious and necessary, that drama and wars put out our light. Strive to remember that this is our one, short life, and the choices we make will determine what comes of it. ~ Bushra Rehman

I thought that if I gave everything I had inside to the people I loved, I would perhaps be able to prove I wasn't a bad person. The truth was that I really wasn't a bad person. And I didn't need to dedicate my life to defining the kind of person that I was. ~ Bushra Rehman

You see, I have trouble with authority. Whenever someone tells me to do something, I get the sudden and very strong urge to do the exact opposite. Sometimes I can control it.
But mostly I just lose. ~ Mina Rehman

I can tell about one who didn't win. And it didn't matter.Because his destiny was battle, Not the victory. He was born to travel, Not to find destination. He lived to live, Not to make a home. ~ Abdur-Rehman Qadeer

Every person have own beauty but more beauty comes from the personality of a person ~ Saif Rehman

Who was going to tell these women that they didn't have to live this way? I was. ~ Bushra Rehman