- Activist | June 19, 1945 -
I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.
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I knew some of the army quite well.
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I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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.
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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.
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Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.
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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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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.
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I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.
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