It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIWe will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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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 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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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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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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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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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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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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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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I think it’s time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.
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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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