I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I’m willing and able to pay for the consequences.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIYou should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don’t have a job you have to rely on someone.
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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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One should mature over 20 years.
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I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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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 think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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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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The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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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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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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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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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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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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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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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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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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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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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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