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

— Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (2012)

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

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Please use your liberty to promote ours.

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

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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.

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

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