If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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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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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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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large.
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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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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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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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People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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