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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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Amount Guarantee Justice Measure Protect System True Weakest
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
That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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Assurance Close Foundation Human Interpret Mind Peace Power Right Security Uphold
The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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Course Development Fix History Pass People Society Series Show Stage World
Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
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Discipline Free Maintain Men Oppress Process Responsibility Saint Sinner Society Themselves Try Women
Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.
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Absorb Completed Date Enjoy More Quitely Relax Sense Some Spent Ver Weekend Work
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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Civilized Fear Natural People State
To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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Hope Human Kind Need Other Respond Sensitivity Warmth
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
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
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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Believe Demand Describe Fact Investment Life Other Sacrifice Uneasy Word
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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Believe Clear Fairly Happy Hope Made Now People Just Think Word
The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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Action Control Dictate Fear Important Thing
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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Before Checkmate Chess Democratic Game Get Look Many Move Process
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
One should mature over 20 years.
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Mature One Over Should Twenty

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