Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

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Aung San Suu Kyi

Profession : Activist

Birth : June 19, 1945

I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The people have given me their support; they have given me their trust and confidence. My colleagues have suffered a lot in order to give me support. I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

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This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.

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A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

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The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.

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When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

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When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

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There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait.

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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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I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

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I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough.

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History is always changing.

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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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I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

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What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

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I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

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

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Regime is made up of people, so I do put faces to regimes and governments, so I feel that all human beings have the right to be given the benefit of the doubt, and they also have to be given the right to try to redeem themselves if they so wish.

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I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

Aung San Suu Kyi