Kindness can change the lives of people.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIPeople ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
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There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed.
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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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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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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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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
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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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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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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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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.
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Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
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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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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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I think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
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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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Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.
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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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I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
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