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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

Aung San Suu Kyi

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
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Change Depend Especially More Particular People Realise Themselves Want Young
Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Change Kindness Live People
If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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Being Give Intimidation
So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
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Discrimination End Factor Inequality Mean Other Peace Poverty Put Violence
As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.
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Ask Been Country Feel First Home How Imprisoned Month Ninteen Often People Six Through Travel Year
It is not a sacrifice, it’s a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it
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Choice Choose Force Sacrifice Something You
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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Believe Demand Describe Fact Investment Life Other Sacrifice Uneasy Word
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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Corrupt Encourage Fear Lose Power Subject
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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Human Ignorant Neglect Occasion Project Right Rule
Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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Age Day Even Heard Loudly Over Voice World
Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
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Action Contribution Every Peace Positive Thought Wholesome
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Fear Freedom Only Prison Real
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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Authoritarian Conscience Family Friend Normal Precious Prisoner Right Separation Stay True
I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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Alone Freer Own Sometimes Think Time
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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Constant Continue Force Order Pose Produce Reform Regeneration Revolution Spirit Threat
When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered “condemnation is not the solution.” We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.
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Condemning Country Criticize Military Offensive People Person State Youth

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