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I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.

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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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.
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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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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.
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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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I don't seem to have time to breathe. Everything's happening so quickly, and so much is happening all the time.
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I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.
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We have been making constant efforts, all the time, to start dialogue with the SLORC, but you know it takes two. We don't want a monologue. We would like a substantive political dialogue among the SLORC, political leaders including myself, and leaders of ethnic groups-exactly as stipulated in the U.N. General Assembly resolution on Burma.
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The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.
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It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.
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I would like to have seen my sons growing up.
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I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.
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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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Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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Burma is not yet a full-fledged democracy. We have started working on the road to full democracy. We have a lot of things to do in order to build a democratic structure and to be become a full-fledged democracy.
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Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.
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When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.
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