You must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIMore 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.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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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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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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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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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
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Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
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It is not a sacrifice, it’s a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it
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