People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIAs 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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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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It 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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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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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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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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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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Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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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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We must contemplate what the meaning of being “educated” is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.
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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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