I think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEach and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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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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I think it’s time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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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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The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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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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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
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