“If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.”
— Aung San Suu Kyi
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”
“People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.”
“Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.”
“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.”
“There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.”
“The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.”
“Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.”
“You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.”
“We must all work together if we are all to live together in unity and harmony.”
“Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.”
“Kindness can change the lives of people.”
“To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.”
“Challenges mean opportunities as well.”
“To be forgotten, is to die a little.”
“I’m feeling a little delicate.”
“Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.”
“I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.”
“Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in the world. Kindness, can change the lives of people.”
“It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.”
“The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.”
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
“It is not power that corrupts but fear.”
“We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.”
“By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.”
“Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.”
“Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one towards which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it as a traveller in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation.”
“Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.”
“Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.”
“Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.”
“I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.”
“Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.”
“For me, ‘revolution’ simply means radical change.”
“The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.”
“It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.”
“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.”
“There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless “law” is equated with justice and “order” with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.”
“I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.”
“We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.”
“After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.”
“You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable than sitting in prison; on the other hand, you have to look after a household, which is strenuous under such circumstances.”
“My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.”
“In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren’t frightened as they used to be.”
“If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated.”
“I don’t want Burma to be a basket case forever.”
“To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.”
“Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.”
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