It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIFear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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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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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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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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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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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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I do not believe that I’m sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I’m demanding returns for my investments.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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Courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ – grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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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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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.
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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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