I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIYet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
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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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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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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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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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One should mature over 20 years.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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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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I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.
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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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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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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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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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