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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIBy helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.
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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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The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.
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The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
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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.
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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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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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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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One should mature over 20 years.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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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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