There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIYou may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don’t have a job you have to rely on someone.
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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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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.
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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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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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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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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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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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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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Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
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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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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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When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered “condemnation is not the solution.” We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.
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