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
Aung San Suu Kyi quotes about
My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
One should mature over 20 years.
The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.
The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.
Challenges mean opportunities as well.
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.