We must contemplate what the meaning of being “educated” is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.
AUNG SAN SUU KYISometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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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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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.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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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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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that ‘if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression’, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
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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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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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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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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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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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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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