Rashid al-Ghannushi Quotations

What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.

There is no one in al-Nahda that is 'violence is a means of change or to keep power.' Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam.

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.