Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
AUNG SAN SUU KYITo 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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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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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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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
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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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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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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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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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