Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.
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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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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One should mature over 20 years.
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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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My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.
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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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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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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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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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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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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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That’s not what it’s all about. It’s to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.
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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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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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