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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIWhen I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered “condemnation is not the solution.” We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.
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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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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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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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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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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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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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