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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?

Aung San Suu Kyi

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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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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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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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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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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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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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