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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.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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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’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
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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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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 do not believe that I’m sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I’m demanding returns for my investments.
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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much. And I noted that there were some values in Harry Potter that are common to many books that are popular all over the world. In the end,
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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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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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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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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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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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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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I don’t like to be called a symbol. And I don’t like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I’d rather be known as a hard worker. I don’t think symbols do much, nor icons.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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 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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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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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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It is not a sacrifice, it’s a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it
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