You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.
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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
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A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.
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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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I do not believe that I’m sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I’m demanding returns for my investments.
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The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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