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Aung San Suu Kyi
Activist
Born:
Jun 19
,
1945
Burma
People
Think
Time
World
You
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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.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Power Corrupts
Fear
Losing
Corrupts
Power
Those
Subject
Scourge
Who
Wield
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Attitude
War
Peace
World
Negative
Poverty
Other
Definition
Destroy
Threaten
Rather
Factors
Putting
Removing
Inequality
Does
End
Discrimination
Just
Mean
Really
Means
Based
Violence
If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
Aung San Suu Kyi
You
Conflict
Be Prepared
Compromise
Long-Standing
End
Want
Prepared
Bring
Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Democracy
People
Dangerous
Sometimes
Opportunity
Dictatorship
Think
About
More
Gives
Could
Parody
Blatant
Because
Doing
Than
Anything
Avoid
I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Hope
Rights
Champion
Human Rights
Shall
Looked
Protect
Always
Up
Human
Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Time
Freedom
Will
Thought
Face
Free
Long
Say
Locked
Locked Up
Would
Would-Be
Find
Stay
Something
Never
Simply
Instinct
Towards
Come
Because
Makes
Doing
However
Oppressed
Up
May
Human
Want
Human Beings
Them
Turn
Themselves
Agree
Beings
Suddenly
They Say
Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Government
Country
Every
Unity
Consider
Out
Responsibilities
Security
Must
Only
Part
True
Come
Within
Any
Just
Where
Ethnic
Many
If you do nothing you get nothing.
Aung San Suu Kyi
You
Nothing
Get
Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Day
Age
World
Voice
Day And Age
Over
Heard
Loudly
Even
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Time
You
Long
Isolation
Live
Think
Enough
Resources
Diminished
Long Periods
Feel
Periods
Then
Inner
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Democracy
You
Not Perfect
Own
Destiny
Tried
Gives
Perfect
Shape
Always
Explain
Your
Chance
Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Rights
People
Feeling
Human Rights
Lead
Always
Human
Less
Fundamental
Violations
People keep saying I've changed. I used to be confrontational. But I'm - I haven't changed. It was - it's just that circumstances have changed.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Saying
People
Changed
Circumstances
Just
Confrontational
Used
Keep
One should mature over 20 years.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Over
Years
Mature
Should
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
Service
Music
Time
World
Listening
Long
Long Time
Single
Wrong
Piece
Heard
Times
Any
Maybe
I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Me
People
Wish
Think
Unless
Definition
Saint
Sinner
Trying
Goes
Who
Agree
History is always changing.
Aung San Suu Kyi
History
Changing
Always
What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.
Aung San Suu Kyi
You
Change
People
Opportunity
Society
States
Willing
Give
Does
Ready
Burma
Engage
Who
United
United States
I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.
Aung San Suu Kyi
World
Prisoner
Think
Conscience
I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Believe
Think
Adolescence
Like
Just
Professional
Phase
I look forward to trying the Internet.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Internet
Look
Trying
Forward
I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Culture
Achieve
Weak
Ability
Compromises
Develop
Been
Repeating
Burma
Regard
Ad
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.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Great
Change
Better
Revolution
Great Change
Defining
Significant
Brought
About
Through
Simply
Non-Violent
How
Means
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.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Politics
Service
Change
Old
Ethics
Responsibility
Think
Too
Way
Brought
Like
Conditioned
Up
Now
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.
Aung San Suu Kyi
People
Try
Made
Wish
Doubt
Benefit
Faces
Given
Put
Feel
Also
Redeem
Governments
Up
Human
Human Beings
Regime
Regimes
Themselves
Beings
Right
We always think that everybody can do a little bit more, if not a lot more.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Think
Everybody
Bit
More
Always
Lot
Little
Little Bit
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