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Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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Aung San Suu Kyi
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 19
Burmese Politician
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
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All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.
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A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.
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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.
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A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.
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Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.
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Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.
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In Burma, we need to find out what we have to do in order to keep the democratization process on track. Economic reforms have to be taken one by one. You see it's not just speed that's important, it's sequencing as well. You've got to get the speed right you have to get the sequencing right.
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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.
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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.
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I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.
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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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After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.
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The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.
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One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.
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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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