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Quote by 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.”

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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

“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.”