There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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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 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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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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