If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIFreedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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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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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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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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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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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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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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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 main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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I think it’s time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.
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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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