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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you feel helpless, go help someone.
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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 people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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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 can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
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That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that ‘if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression’, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
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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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There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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