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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIHow can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.
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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.
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When 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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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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The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development.
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The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude.
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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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All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
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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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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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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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As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.
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