All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIAll right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIGovernment leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEven the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIFearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIFundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe 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 KYIHow 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEarly childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let’s not confine ourselves to primary education. Let’s think of early childhood development and education as a whole.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
AUNG SAN SUU KYIFreedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII don’t like to be called a symbol. And I don’t like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I’d rather be known as a hard worker. I don’t think symbols do much, nor icons.
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