More - Aung Suu Quotes

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

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 Freedom

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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 Integrity

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

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 Government

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

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 Democracy

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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 Minority

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

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 Fear

It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

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