I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII 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.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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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.
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I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let’s not confine ourselves to primary education. Let’s think of early childhood development and education as a whole.
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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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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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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
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We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
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When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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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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