Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

Freeing oppressed nationalities is perhaps the most dangerous of all philanthropic enterprises.

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

We want democracy, we want human rights, we want civil liberties, but we will do it our way.

Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.

I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth.

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.

For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the project of a people does not die. It is the project of freedom for a people, it is a project of sovereignty. And since the nation exists, it has the right to its own state. I will work to advance it in that direction.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

We seek in Central America not peace alone, not peace to be followed someday by political progress, but peace and democracy, together, indivisible, an end to the shedding of human blood, which is inseparable from an end to the suppression of human rights.

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.