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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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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Assertion Bring Free Idea Intellectual Last Nation Persistent Project Regime Relentless Righteous Totalitarian
I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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Always Freedom Mind Sometimes State Think
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Fear Freedom Only Prison Real
How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.
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Authoritarian Conscience Family Friend Normal Precious Prisoner Right Separation Stay True
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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Attribute Born Change Intellectual Mental Ned Quintessential Revolution Spirit Value
Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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Big Convenience Enough Every Kindness never Recieve Small World
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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Change Depend Especially More Particular People Realise Themselves Want Young
The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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Country Fear Freedom People Security Want
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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Best Children Conflict Knowledge Star War Women
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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Army Democracy Engine Genuine Particular People Power Think Time Understand
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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Confidence Feel Job Jobless People Rely Self Someone Worthless
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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Civilized Fear Natural People State
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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Able Being Freedom Full Human Need Potential Realize Security World
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.
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Human Ignorant Neglect Occasion Project Right Rule
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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Action Come Courage Cultivate Describe Dictate Face Fear Habit Harsh Pressure Refuse
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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Condition Easy Enervate Fear Free Iron Miasma might People Principle Rule Themselves Under

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