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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIAs 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.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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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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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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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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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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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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The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development.
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I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much. And I noted that there were some values in Harry Potter that are common to many books that are popular all over the world. In the end,
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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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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.
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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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To 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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