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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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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Dr. Suu Kyi
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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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I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.
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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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Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
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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.
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Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.
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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.
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