With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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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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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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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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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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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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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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It’s good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma.
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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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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 true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
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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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I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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We must contemplate what the meaning of being “educated” is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.
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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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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much. And I noted that there were some values in Harry Potter that are common to many books that are popular all over the world. In the end,
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