Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
AUNG SAN SUU KYII don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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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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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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