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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIFearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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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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I do not believe that I’m sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I’m demanding returns for my investments.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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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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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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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More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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