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

— Aung San Suu Kyi In Quest of Democracy (1991)

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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)

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)

Tyranny does not crumble by itself. Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.

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