Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIChallenges mean opportunities as well.
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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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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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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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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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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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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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My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.
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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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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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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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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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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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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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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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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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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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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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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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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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