Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi,is a Burmese social democratic stateswoman, politician, diplomat and author who serves as the First and incumbent State Counsellor and Leader of the National League for Democracy. She is also the first female Minister of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar and the Minister of President's Office in President Htin Kyaw's Cabinet, and from 2012 to 2016 was a Pyithu Hluttaw MP for Kawhmu Township...
NationalityBurmese
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth19 June 1945
CountryMyanmar
All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.
As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.
Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.
Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out of bed.
If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.
At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.
Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.
What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.
The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.
I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.
As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.