Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIKindness can change the lives of people.
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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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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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You must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.
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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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If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
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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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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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Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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