Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
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I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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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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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
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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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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
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All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
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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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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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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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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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