There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
AUNG SAN SUU KYITo 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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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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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 that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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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 only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
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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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The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
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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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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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