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Quotes from Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech — Aung San Suu Kyi

born 1945 Myanmar

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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.

Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (2012)

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (2012)

If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.

Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (2012)

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.

Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (2012)

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (2012)

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution. Let us join hands to try to create a peaceful world where we can sleep in security and wake in happiness.

Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (2012)

To be forgotten. The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (2012)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aung San Suu Kyi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.