Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIGovernment leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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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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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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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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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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With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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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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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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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.
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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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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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