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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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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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Attribute Born Change Intellectual Mental Ned Quintessential Revolution Spirit Value
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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Each Endeavour Help Other Own Potential Realize Realized Truth
There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed.
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Compare Courage Name Nothing Ordinary Pass People Sacrifice Unknown Unnoticed
Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
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Dissemble Distrust Duet Fear Intimidation Keep Oppression People Propoganda Silent
Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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Basic Community Country Deprived Good Government Institution Insufficiency International Investment Make Part Poor Practice Struggle Understand
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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Aim Genuine Improvement Institution Merely Official Policy Revolution Succes Success View
The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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Amount Guarantee Justice Measure Protect System True Weakest
It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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Difficult Dispel Fera Freedom Ignorance Pursue Truth Unfetter Unless
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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Condition Easy Enervate Fear Free Iron Miasma might People Principle Rule Themselves Under
Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.
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Concept Confrontation Difference exchange Genuine Grasp Major Mind Open Regiment Settlement
I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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Always Best Feel Help Helpless Other Solution
How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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Believe Choose Sacrifice Something
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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Absence Bodily Courage Fear Fearlessness Gift Greatest Individual Merely Mind Nation
To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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Hope Human Kind Need Other Respond Sensitivity Warmth
If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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Feeling Helpless Somehow
I think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Better Direction Effective Government People Side Some Way World

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