If you feel helpless, go help someone.
AUNG SAN SUU KYISaints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
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People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
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That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large.
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One should mature over 20 years.
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Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don’t have a job you have to rely on someone.
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If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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