No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Muhammad Ali JinnahRead
Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.
Interpretation
Jinnah believed that a unified India was impractical and would have resulted in great harm.
In this quote, Muhammad Ali Jinnah expresses his conviction that the notion of a single, united India was not feasible. He suggests that such an idea would not only be unrealistic but also destructive, indicating his perspective that the cultural, religious, and social differences would ultimately lead to significant conflict and turmoil.
In practice
A speaker addressing the complexities of national identity could use this quote to underscore differing views on unity.
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
Think well before selecting your leader, and when you have selected him, follow him. But in case you find his policy detrimental to your interests, kick him out.
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If we sacrifice our values because we're afraid, we don't care very much about those values.
It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also, it must be said, far from reassuring.
If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.
Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you- not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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