There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don’t have a job you have to rely on someone.
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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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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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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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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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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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Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
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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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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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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 Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that ‘if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression’, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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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 search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
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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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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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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 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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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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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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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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