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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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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.
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Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let’s not confine ourselves to primary education. Let’s think of early childhood development and education as a whole.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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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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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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We must contemplate what the meaning of being “educated” is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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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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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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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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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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