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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII 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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I 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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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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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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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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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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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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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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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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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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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
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