You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIMy top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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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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Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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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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There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed.
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One should mature over 20 years.
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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 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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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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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Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.
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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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Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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