"Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom." [23]
Aung San Suu Kyi
"Often during my days of house arrest it felt as though I were no longer a part of the real world. There was the house which was my world, there was the world of others who also were not free but who were together in prison as a community, and there was the world of the free." [24]
Aung San Suu Kyi
"In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991 to Aung San Suu Kyi, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to honor this woman for her unflagging efforts and to show its support for the many people throughout the world who are striving to attain democracy, human rights and ethnic conciliation by peaceful means." [25] |
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“She [Suu Kyi] could have chosen the route of Gandhi and just been an icon. Instead she chose the route of Margaret Thatcher by accepting responsibility by bringing along a country that was essentially in the dark ages.” [26] |
"Calling just Daw Suu and not putting the surname is because she is not entitled to use her father's name. Daw Suu is not a full name but a short name. Her full name should be nicknamed Dollar Suu Boo [Dollar Piggy Bank] as she is shovelling up the dollars as much as she can and saving them by coming under foreign influence and being puppet of neo-colonialists. The only name befitting her beginning from today is Daw Suu Dollar Suu Boo." [27]
Sein Gyittu, "The New Light of Myanmar"