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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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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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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
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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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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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More 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.
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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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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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As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.
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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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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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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed.
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