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Aung San Suu Kyi

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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Absence Bodily Courage Fear Fearlessness Gift Greatest Individual Merely Mind Nation
Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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Fear Habit Not
When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered “condemnation is not the solution.” We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.
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Condemning Country Criticize Military Offensive People Person State Youth
How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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Believe Choose Sacrifice Something
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
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Acces Access Power Remove Same Such System Value
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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Authoritarian Conscience Family Friend Normal Precious Prisoner Right Separation Stay True
We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
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Build Empower Enable Kind People Provide Qualification Strengthen Want
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
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Change Depend Especially More Particular People Realise Themselves Want Young
I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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Always Endeavor Hope One Right Say
I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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Bad Good People Prefer Rather Think Won
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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Corrupt Encourage Fear Lose Power Subject
I don’t like to be called a symbol. And I don’t like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I’d rather be known as a hard worker. I don’t think symbols do much, nor icons.
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Call Hard Icon Just Like Say Symbol Very Worry
It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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Enough Hope Order Realize Sit Work
It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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Difficult Dispel Fera Freedom Ignorance Pursue Truth Unfetter Unless
Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Change Kindness Live People
The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
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Avengation Essential Honesty Indicate Intelligent Nature Problem Responsibility Sacegoat Search True

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