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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIA revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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I don’t like to be called a symbol. And I don’t like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I’d rather be known as a hard worker. I don’t think symbols do much, nor icons.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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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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The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser.
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With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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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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I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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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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I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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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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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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One should mature over 20 years.
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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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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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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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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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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.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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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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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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