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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Aung San Suu Kyi
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About Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat, and author who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Union Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021. She has served as the general secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) since the party's founding in 1988 and was registered as its chairperson while it was a legal party from 2011 to 2023. She played a vital role in Myanmar's transition from military junta to partial democracy in the 2010s. She has been widely described as…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Aung San Suu KyiI 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, som…
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
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 en…
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.
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.
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.
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In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.
Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.
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.
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
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…
The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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 en…
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.
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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…
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 do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
History is always changing.
In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.