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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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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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The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
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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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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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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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The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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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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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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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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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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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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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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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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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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One should mature over 20 years.
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser.
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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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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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