I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEvery thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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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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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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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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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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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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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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To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
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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.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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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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It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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