Quotes by Activists

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be. Aung San Suu Kyi

Politics People Relaxed About General More Feel Participating Frightened Used

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for. Aung San Suu Kyi

Hope Government Peace Happy People Reward Think Approval Something Could Opinion Greatest Greatest Reward Get Any Done Them

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

Judiciary Everybody Independent Known Knows Burma Widely

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

Age Become Something Fonder Poetry Prose Than Maybe

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. Aung San Suu Kyi

Work Politics You Change Sometimes Political Feelings Think Else Come Least Overnight Very Expect Unexpectedly Anything Anything Else Apart

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

History is always changing. Aung San Suu Kyi

History Changing Always

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

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

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be. Barbara Smith

Women Black Fools Group Never Been Afford

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration. Barbara Smith

Women Experience Thought Black Important Enough Consideration Recognized Entity Seldom Scholarly Particular Unique Serious Whose

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed. Barbara Smith

Women People Problem Black Oppose Anti-Semitism White Our All People Scepticism Color Major Major Problem Oppressed Challenged Actually Profound