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
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves – they can't depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.
I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.
Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.
I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.
The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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.
Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in the world. Kindness, can change the lives of people.
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.
Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.
I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do.
I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.
It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.