I don’t like to be called a symbol. And I don’t like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I’d rather be known as a hard worker. I don’t think symbols do much, nor icons.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIOne should mature over 20 years.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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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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With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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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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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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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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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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It’s good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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