My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIPeople ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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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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With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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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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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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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 people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large.
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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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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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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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The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.
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Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.
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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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