“Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.”
From 1999 interview.
Noted in the October 2003 BBC News profile of Ebadi. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3181992.stm (retrieved Oct. 15, 2008)
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