Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIHow can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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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.
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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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Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.
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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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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.
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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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Without 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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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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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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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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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The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser.
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