The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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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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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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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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The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser.
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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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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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Courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ – grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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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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