Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIWithout a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.
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Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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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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I don’t like to be called a symbol. And I don’t like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I’d rather be known as a hard worker. I don’t think symbols do much, nor icons.
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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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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
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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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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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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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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude.
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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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If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
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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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