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Asma Jahangir

Activist 1952–2018

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About Asma Jahangir

Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer (1952–2018)

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“A human rights activist has to be stubborn… it’s not your dignity, [you’re] fighting for other’s dignity.”

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“I think that life where you don’t have dignity and where you don’t fight for people’s dignity is a wasted life.”

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