Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEven the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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One should mature over 20 years.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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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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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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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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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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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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All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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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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My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.
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