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“If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.”

Quote by Aung San Suu Kyi

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Aung San Suu Kyi

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. more

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“More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves – they can't depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.”

People Ifs Knows World Want Persons Young Used Easy Particular Fool Depends Used To Be Realising

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.”

People Made Choices Asks Answers Sacrifice Ask Me

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.”

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out of bed.”

Sometimes Enough Hair Bed Weak

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.”

Country Government Community Poor Practice Struggle Resources Institutions Investment International Deprived International Community Poor Countries Insufficiency

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.”

People Men Mind Firsts Mean Ends States Might Strong Nations Institutions Democratic Guarantees Apathy Aspire Standing Out

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“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. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.”

People Men States Might Easy Natural Principles Crush Iron Civilized Again And Again Machinery Basic Human Rights Might Is Right

Book:Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“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