Selected Aung San Suu Kyi Quotations
• Our struggle for democracy is a struggle for our everyday life.
• Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
• The people of Burma are like prisoners in their own country, deprived of all freedom under military rule.
• You can never separate the political system of a country from the way you conduct your daily life.
• The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
• Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
• As my father's daughter, I felt I had a duty to get involved.
• 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.
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2006. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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Jone Johnson Lewis. "Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes." About Women's History. URL: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/a/aungsansuukyi.htm . Date accessed: (today). (More on how to cite online sources including this page)
