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It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
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Build Empower Enable Kind People Provide Qualification Strengthen Want
The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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Country Fear Freedom People Security Want
Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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Always Feel Fundamental Human Lead Less People Right Violation
Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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And Promote Freedom Our Please Use
How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.
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Authoritarian Conscience Family Friend Normal Precious Prisoner Right Separation Stay True
The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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Action Control Dictate Fear Important Thing
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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Discrimination End Factor Inequality Mean Other Peace Poverty Put Violence
Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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Access Biatant Dangerous Democracy Dictatorship Honesty Inability Intelligence Nature Parody Sometimes Think True
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
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Education Empowerment Life Peaceful Result Thoughtful Tolerant Women
Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.
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Concept Confrontation Difference exchange Genuine Grasp Major Mind Open Regiment Settlement
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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Basic Community Country Deprived Good Government Institution Insufficiency International Investment Make Part Poor Practice Struggle Understand
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.
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Attitude Based Burmese Definition Destroy Factor Mean Negative Peace Really Remove
Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let’s not confine ourselves to primary education. Let’s think of early childhood development and education as a whole.
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Been Beneficial Childhood Cost Development Effective Every Society Tries
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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Assertion Bring Free Idea Intellectual Last Nation Persistent Project Regime Relentless Righteous Totalitarian
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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Acces Access Power Remove Same Such System Value
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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Absence Bodily Courage Fear Fearlessness Gift Greatest Individual Merely Mind Nation

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