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 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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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
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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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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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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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That’s not what it’s all about. It’s to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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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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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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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser.
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