Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIDemocracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I’m willing and able to pay for the consequences.
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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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It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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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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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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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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The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.
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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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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development.
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