Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIntimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
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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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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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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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I think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
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