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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIOne should mature over 20 years.
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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
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When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
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When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered “condemnation is not the solution.” We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.
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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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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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I think it’s time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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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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