Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

Having your worst nightmares kind of come true is truly liberating.

At the moment of greatest love, there is greatest fear, and at the moment of enormous repression, there is resistance, and therefore a chance at revolutionary change.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

Being a single woman is like going off to war.

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

I got a tattoo saying, 'Freedom From Fear' because of 'Black Water Transit.'

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.

I've been fighting my whole life.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.