There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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.
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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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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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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
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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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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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I do not believe that I’m sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I’m demanding returns for my investments.
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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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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 education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
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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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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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