I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIt 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.
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We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
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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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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 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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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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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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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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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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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
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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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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 four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude.
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The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.
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