The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf 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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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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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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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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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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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
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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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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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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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