Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIPlease use your freedom to promote ours.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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It’s good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma.
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I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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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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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.
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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.
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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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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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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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We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
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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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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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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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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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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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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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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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