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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.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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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There is no hope without endeavor.
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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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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
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When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered “condemnation is not the solution.” We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
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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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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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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to 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 think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
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