It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIWeak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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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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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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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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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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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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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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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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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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