There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
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Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.
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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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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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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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If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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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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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let’s not confine ourselves to primary education. Let’s think of early childhood development and education as a whole.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
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I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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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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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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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
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The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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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.
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
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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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