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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIFreedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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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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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
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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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I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
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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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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 viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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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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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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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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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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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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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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