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
We must make democracy the popular creed...If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer... That is what my father said. It is the reason why I am participating in this struggle.
The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." (From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)
We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.
When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.
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.
The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.
I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves – they can't depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.
The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.
When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.
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.