Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEven one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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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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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
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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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