A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you feel helpless, go help someone.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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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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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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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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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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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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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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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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