Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIHumor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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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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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.
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The 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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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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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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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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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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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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The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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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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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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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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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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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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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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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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