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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIJustice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.
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If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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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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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
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One should mature over 20 years.
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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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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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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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It’s good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma.
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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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Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
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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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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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