When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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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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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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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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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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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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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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So 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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I don’t like to be called a symbol. And I don’t like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I’d rather be known as a hard worker. I don’t think symbols do much, nor icons.
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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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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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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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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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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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