It’s good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe 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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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
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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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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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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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The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.
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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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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
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The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude.
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Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.
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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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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 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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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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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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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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