You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
AUNG SAN SUU KYISo 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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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.
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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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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I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
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Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.
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I do not believe that I’m sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I’m demanding returns for my investments.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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Courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ – grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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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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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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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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