I think it’s time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIMy top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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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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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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I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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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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There is no hope without endeavor.
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One should mature over 20 years.
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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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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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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
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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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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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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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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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