Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIt’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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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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I 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.
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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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Courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ – grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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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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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
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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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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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