Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that ‘if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression’, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
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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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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.
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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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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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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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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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We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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One should mature over 20 years.
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I think it’s time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.
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That’s not what it’s all about. It’s to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.
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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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