As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIKindness can change the lives of people.
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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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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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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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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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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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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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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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When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered “condemnation is not the solution.” We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.
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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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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
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The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I’m willing and able to pay for the consequences.
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