Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
AUNG SAN SUU KYITo be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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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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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
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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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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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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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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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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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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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