Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

I have been arrested time and time again, and my colleagues, too. I cannot guarantee that I'll not be arrested again. But it's not something that weighs on my mind. I'll do what I can while I'm free. If they arrest me again, I'll do what I can while I'm under arrest.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

If this be treason, make the most of it!

You can try and kill my body but you cannot kill my cause.

I am not afraid to go to jail.

She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle...she fails in the end but there's something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!

I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

Better to starve fighting than to starve working.

Come on, fire bullets at me. I am prepared to die for the sake of the people.