The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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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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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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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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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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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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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that ‘if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression’, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
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You must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.
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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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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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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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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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