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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIA 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.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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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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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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I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I’m willing and able to pay for the consequences.
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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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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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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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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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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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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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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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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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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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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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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser.
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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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Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.
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