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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIn societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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 can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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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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So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
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When 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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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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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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Courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ – grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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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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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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