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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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Always Feel Fundamental Human Lead Less People Right Violation
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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Basic Community Country Deprived Good Government Institution Insufficiency International Investment Make Part Poor Practice Struggle Understand
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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Civilized Fear Natural People State
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
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Education Empowerment Life Peaceful Result Thoughtful Tolerant Women
I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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Adaptable Flexible Myself Perhaps Rather Think Unbreakable
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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Constant Continue Force Order Pose Produce Reform Regeneration Revolution Spirit Threat
The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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Absence Bodily Courage Fear Fearlessness Gift Greatest Individual Merely Mind Nation
I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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Always Best Feel Help Helpless Other Solution
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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Change Depend Especially More Particular People Realise Themselves Want Young
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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Acceptance Answer Concern Course Give Party Require Some Take Try
The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large.
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Assertion Bring Free Idea Intellectual Last Nation Persistent Project Regime Relentless Righteous Totalitarian
We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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Destination Hand Join Surely
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Fear Freedom Only Prison Real
I think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
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Better Direction Effective Government People Side Some Way World
If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
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Before Checkmate Chess Democratic Game Get Look Many Move Process
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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Always Hope Just People Power Understand Word

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