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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII 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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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
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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 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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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 true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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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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Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don’t have a job you have to rely on someone.
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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.
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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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Each 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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