If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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.
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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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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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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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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser.
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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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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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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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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
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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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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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I do not believe that I’m sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I’m demanding returns for my investments.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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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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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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We must contemplate what the meaning of being “educated” is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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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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Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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