It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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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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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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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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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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More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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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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I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I’m willing and able to pay for the consequences.
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We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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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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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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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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