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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIOne should mature over 20 years.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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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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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.
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It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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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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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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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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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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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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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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I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much. And I noted that there were some values in Harry Potter that are common to many books that are popular all over the world. In the end,
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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 only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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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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The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.
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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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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 history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.
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The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.
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