Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don’t have a job you have to rely on someone.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development.
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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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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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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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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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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
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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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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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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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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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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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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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