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.
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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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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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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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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The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.
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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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The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large.
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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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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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