"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
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"I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.“
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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."
-Aung San Suu Kyi
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"War is not the only arena where peace is done to death."
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"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."
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"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."
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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."
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"I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights."
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"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence."
-William Boetcker
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"I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage."
-Dame Edith Evans
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"There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge."
-Patrick Campbell
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"Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow."
-Alexandre Vinet
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"There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage."
-Bill Hunter
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