I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIWhen you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
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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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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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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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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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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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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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I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much. And I noted that there were some values in Harry Potter that are common to many books that are popular all over the world. In the end,
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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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