It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIWe will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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A 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.
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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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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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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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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.
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The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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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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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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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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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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It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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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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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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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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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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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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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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