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I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 19
Burmese Politician
Human Rights Activist
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The last six years afforded me much time and food for thought. I came to the conclusion that the human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.
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I've always said that the most important thing is job creation. Jobs will earn people money and build self-confidence.
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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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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.
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The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the campus could get away with engaging in political activities, but they seem to be able to get away with taking drugs. We have heard that it is very easy to obtain drugs on the university campuses.
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If the restrictions on the work of my party and on me personally are not removed in the very, very near future - that is in a matter of days - I think the United States should start thinking seriously of sanctions. This is really about as bad as it has ever been.
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Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and helpless -- mass to be manipulated at will. It is as though people were incidental to a nation rather than its very life-blood.
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The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate.
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Foreign investors will not come and do things without any returns for themselves. And we don't expect them to come work for us free. But the local population should benefit rightfully. The locals should benefit just a little more than the companies.
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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. Yet 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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It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.
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When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered condemnation is not the solution. We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.
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I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.
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I don't think any country can survive as a prosperous and dignified country unless there is rule of law.
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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
Aung San Suu Kyi
I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not confine ourselves to primary education. Let's think of early childhood development and education as a whole.
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If you're feeling helpless, help someone.
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I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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