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Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward égalité and justice — the foundation stones for a sound democracy. [...] Please use your liberty to promote ours.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

In Quest of Democracy (1991)

Please use your liberty to promote ours.

Please Use Your Liberty to Promote Ours (1997)

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

In Quest of Democracy (1991)

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it. Human life therefore is infinitely precious.

In Quest of Democracy (1991)

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

In Quest of Democracy (1991)

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