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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIFearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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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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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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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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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If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
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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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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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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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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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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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