Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.
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One should mature over 20 years.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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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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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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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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