Ayatollah Khomeini:

Yes, we are reactionaries, and you are enlightened intellectuals: You intellectuals do not want us to go back 1400 years.

— Ayatollah Khomeini Contemporary

Iranian revolution leader

A retort to critics who labeled his movement as reactionary.

1979-1989 (approximate, during his leadership)

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