There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII 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.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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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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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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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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More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
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Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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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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That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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It’s good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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