All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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I think it’s time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.
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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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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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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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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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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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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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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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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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That’s not what it’s all about. It’s to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.
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