“What keeps me on my feet in this prison, while my body bruised and wounded, is my love for the honorable, but tormented, people of this country, and my ideals of justice and freedom. To honor the innocent people’s blood shed atrociously, I pledge to speak the truth, defy tyranny and defend the oppressed until my last breath.”
Author: Nayereh Tohidi
Nayereh Tohidi, Ph.D., is a professor of gender and women's studies and director of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at California State University, Northridge.