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As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
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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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That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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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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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don’t have a job you have to rely on someone.
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When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered “condemnation is not the solution.” We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.
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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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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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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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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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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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