In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf 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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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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It’s good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma.
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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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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
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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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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
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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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Intimidation 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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The 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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All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
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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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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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