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 KYIYou may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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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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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 courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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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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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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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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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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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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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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One should mature over 20 years.
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Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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