Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIFearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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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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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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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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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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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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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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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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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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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