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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIPlease use your freedom to promote ours.
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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 think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.
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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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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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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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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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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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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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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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If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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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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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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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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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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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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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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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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