If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let’s not confine ourselves to primary education. Let’s think of early childhood development and education as a whole.
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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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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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I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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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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Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.
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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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Courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ – grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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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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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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