Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi,is a Burmese social democratic stateswoman, politician, diplomat and author who serves as the First and incumbent State Counsellor and Leader of the National League for Democracy. She is also the first female Minister of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar and the Minister of President's Office in President Htin Kyaw's Cabinet, and from 2012 to 2016 was a Pyithu Hluttaw MP for Kawhmu Township...
NationalityBurmese
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth19 June 1945
CountryMyanmar
There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
To be forgotten, is to die a little.
For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.
The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.
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.
I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.
All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.
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.
If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.
It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.
Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free
When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.
I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.