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Burmese Politician

Aung San Suu Kyi is a distinguished Burmese politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, born in June 1945. She is renowned for her nonviolent struggle for democracy and human rights in Myanmar, spending much of her life under house arrest and becoming a symbol of hope for the Burmese people.

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Famous Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

“As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.”

Looks Remember Please Conscience Prisoner Look At Me Listen To Me

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.”

Would Be Difficult Ignorance Pursue

Book:Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.”

Justice Amount Protection Humanitarian Guarantees

Book:Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.”

Book:Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“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”

Ifs Choices Sacrifice You Choose

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.”

Mind Individual Nations Absence Greatest Gifts Fearlessness

Book:Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“Some believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one is through violent means. I would like to set the precedent of political change through political settlement, not through violence.”

Way Believe Mean Political Violence Democratic Violent Remove Regimes Settlement Precedent Political Change

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“I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes

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“Democracy acknowledges the right to differ as well as the duty to settle differences peacefully. Authoritarian governments see criticism of their actions and doctrines as a challenge to combat.”

Wells Government Action Challenges Differences Democracy Duty Criticism Doctrine Settling Acknowledge Combat Freedom Of Speech Authoritarian Government

Book:Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.”

Sometimes Change Hours Revolutionary Revolutionary Change

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“A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.”

Should Mean Political Serious Significant Dialogue Phases Seriousness Political Dialogue

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“It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.”

Men Self Self Improvement Capacity Mere Improvement Redemption Brutes

Book:Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.”

Matter Action Effort Accepting Fate Mystery Achieve Achievement Sitting Gains Decided Over You Almighty Our Actions Almighty God

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“The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance.”

Needs Feels States Play Roles Destiny Greater Groups Materials Demand Active Sufficient Minorities Entity Indigenous Provision Allegiance Be Confident Indigenous People Minority Groups

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“Kindness can change the lives of people.”

People Kindness

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“You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.”

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“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. 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.”

Feels Believe Facts Able Used Sound Walks Pay Sacrifice Journey Willing Return Consequence Decided Investment Uneasy Wholeheartedly

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“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.”

People Needs Humans Heart Kind Kindness Heavy Be Kind Warmth Sensitivity Needs Of Others Heavy Heart

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“A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.”

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.”

World Feels Used Listening Used To Be Right Time Versatile

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.”

World Long Pieces Heard Havens Listening Long Time Wrong Time

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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. 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.”

People Feels Years Firsts Has Beens Country States Home Humanity Asks Given Months Normal Six Conscience Separation Ask Me Prisoner Ironic Family And Friends Given Up Normal Life

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“Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.”

Real Political Community Progress Serious Assuming International Genuine Dialogue International Community Political Dialogue

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“Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.”

People World Enough Bigs Kindness Convinced

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“When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.”

Should Ends Reason Certain Path

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“Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.”

World This World

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“The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.”

Speech Bases Democratic Freedom Of Speech

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“When you feel helpless, help someone.”

Feels Helping Helpless

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“If you are feeling helpless, help someone.”

Ifs Helping Feelings Helpless

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“If you feel helpless, go help someone.”

Ifs Feels Helping Helpless

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“If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.”

Ifs Way Should Trying Suffering Existence Practicals Alleviate

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“It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.”

Men Humans Spirit Prove Flaws Endeavor

Book:Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“Perhaps Singapore could learn from us a more relaxed way of life.”

Way Relaxed Singapore

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.”

Has Beens Denied

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“One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.”

Want Together Family

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“Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.”

Able Courses Family Regret My Family End Times Spend Time I Regret

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“Art history is always changing too.”

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About the Author

Born: June 19, 1945
Known for: Burmese Politician
Quotes: 287

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