One should mature over 20 years.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIHuman 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 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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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
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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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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.
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That’s not what it’s all about. It’s to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.
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With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
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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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