We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.
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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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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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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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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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I think it’s time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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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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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that ‘if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression’, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
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