Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
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.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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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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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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Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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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.
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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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