Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThere’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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One should mature over 20 years.
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When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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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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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much. And I noted that there were some values in Harry Potter that are common to many books that are popular all over the world. In the end,
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