Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

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  Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

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  Add, Action, Contribution

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

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• You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

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  Courage, Women, Should

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  It is not power that corrupts but fear.

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  Wielding Power, Corrupt Power, Power Corrupts

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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  We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

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  Peace, Hands, Collaboration

  "Freed Burmese Democrat Is Conciliatory". www.nytimes.com. July 12, 1995.

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  Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

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  Survival, Ingredients, International Women's Day

  "At Lunch with Aung San Suu Kyi". Interview with Cherno Jobatey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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• The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

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• If you are feeling helpless, help someone.

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  Feelings, Helping, Ifs

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• It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

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  Sacrifice, Choices, You Choose

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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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  Order, Realizing, Enough

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

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  Kindness, Heart, People

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

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• I do not believe that I'm sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I'm demanding returns for my investments. I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I'm willing and able to pay for the consequences.

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  Believe, Sacrifice, Journey

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• Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

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  Courage, Grace, May

  "Freedom from Fear". Aung San Suu Kyi's Acceptance Speech for the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 1, 1990.

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• The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.

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  Perseverance, Attitude, Want Something

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• By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

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  Helping Others, Helping

  "5 Powerful Tips For Female Professionals Who Want To Own The Table, Not Just Have A Seat" by Erica Nicole, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2016.

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.

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  Children, War, Conflict

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women in Beijing, China, August 31, 1995.

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• The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.

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  Country, Freedom, Two

  Opening Keynote Address video before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China, gos.sbc.edu. August 31, 1995.

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• There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

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  Violence, Nasty, Begets

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• Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

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  Fear, People, Basic Human Rights

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large. Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.

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  Ideas, People, Intellectual

  "In Quest of Democracy". Essay by Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991.

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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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  People, Priorities, Top Priorities

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• The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

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  Justice, Guarantees, Protection

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1995). “Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings”, p.185, Penguin UK

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• Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

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  Freedom, Government, People

  "Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi vows to carry on democracy battle". www.mirror.co.uk. September 28, 2012.

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• Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

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  Kindness, People, World

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

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• I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

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  Thinking, Unbreakable, Flexible

  "Aung San Suu Kyi: I never hated the Burmese army". Interview with Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. June 18, 2012.

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