The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII 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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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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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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If 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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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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We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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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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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that ‘if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression’, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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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