The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIFearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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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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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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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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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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The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large.
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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.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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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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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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