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Quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi
- I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
- I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.
- I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.
- I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
- 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.
- I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.
- 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.
- I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
- If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
- If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.
- If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
- In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.
- In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.
- In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.
- 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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