You must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.
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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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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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
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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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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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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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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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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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