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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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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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It is not a sacrifice, it’s a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it
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If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
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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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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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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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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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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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