Mohammad

Ali

Jinnah

‘Gandhi died by the hands of an assassin; Jinnah died by his devotion to Pakistan’

Lord Pethick Lawrence

Islamia College for Women

1940

‘No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. 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.’

Aligarh University

1944

‘No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. 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’

‘SPEEDY JUSTICE: SWAT TALIBAN BEAT A 17 YEAR OLD GIRL’

New York Times

‘How could the conquerors have conquered in the first place, unless there were significant differences beforehand, whether economic or political?

Thomas Sowell

DEMOCRACY

The beauty & burden of democracy is that no idea prevails without the support of majority - people decide the moral issue of the day…not one person

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

A moral weapon in the fight for Justice

JAMES JOYCE

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake…

Massacre of Amritsar 1919

Lynching of Jesse Washington 1916

Lynching of Jesse Washington 1916

"This is the barbecue we had last night. My picture is to the left with a cross over it. Your son, Joe."

‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness… we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way ’

Charles Dickens

Expected

• Debaters

• Discussions

• Integrate

• Development

• Campaigns

Actual

• Gangsters

• Quarrels

• Differentiate

• Destruction

• Rallies

Youth in Politics - Pakistan

D.H LAWRENCE

I never saw a wild thing feeling sorry for itself…

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

An unjust law is no law at all; which means I have a right to choose between violence or civil disobedience. You should pray that I choose the later.

Food for Thought

• What is ‘Political will’?

• We have the possible solutions…but do we have the determination?

• Are we capable to rise above ourselves & our history?

• We were able achieve freedom from 200 years of colonial rule? Why can’t we do it now?