Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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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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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That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.
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I think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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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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Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.
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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 true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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