By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEach man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
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In 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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The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude.
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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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There is no hope without endeavor.
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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.
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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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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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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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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
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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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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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The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.
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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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