Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIn societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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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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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
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My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.
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That’s not what it’s all about. It’s to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that ‘if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression’, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
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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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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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