Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIKindness can change the lives of people.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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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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The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large.
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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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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.
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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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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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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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