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Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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
As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.
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Ask Been Country Feel First Home How Imprisoned Month Ninteen Often People Six Through Travel Year
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.
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Better Direction Effective Government People Side Some Way World
Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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And Promote Freedom Our Please Use
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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Choice Choose Force Sacrifice Something You
That’s not what it’s all about. It’s to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.
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Acceptance Answer Concern Course Give Party Require Some Take Try
When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered “condemnation is not the solution.” We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.
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Condemning Country Criticize Military Offensive People Person State Youth
Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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Alienation Common Feature Inconsistence Logic People Weak
Courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ – grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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Action Come Courage Cultivate Describe Dictate Face Fear Habit Harsh Pressure Refuse
Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
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Action Contribution Every Peace Positive Thought Wholesome
The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
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Avengation Essential Honesty Indicate Intelligent Nature Problem Responsibility Sacegoat Search True
We must contemplate what the meaning of being “educated” is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.
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Believe Call Decisions Degree Educate Important People Plenty Situation Some Symbol Think
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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Army Democracy Engine Genuine Particular People Power Think Time Understand
I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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Always Freedom Mind Sometimes State Think
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
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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Ahed All Going Knee Knock Need Prevent Right

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