If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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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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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
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Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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 search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
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The 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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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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A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.
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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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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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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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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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