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Aung San Suu Kyi

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In 1991, the Nobel Committee awarded its Peace Prize to a politician and writer who was, at that moment, unable to accept it in person. Born on 19 June 1945 in Yangon, Aung San Suu Kyi grew up to become a citizen of Myanmar whose work as a human rights defender drew international attention across decades of political turbulence.

Her education spanned several institutions across multiple countries, including the Convent of Jesus and Mary, the University of Delhi, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, St Hugh's College, and SOAS, University of London. She works in both Burmese and English. In 1988, she became general secretary of the National League for Democracy, and from 2011 to 2023 she served as the party's registered chairperson during the period in which it operated as a legal organization. Her political career reached its most prominent phase between 2016 and 2021, when she held the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs and served concurrently as State Counsellor of Myanmar. During those same years she was widely described as the de facto leader of Myanmar.

Her tenure in those roles ended in 2021. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to her while she was unable to travel freely, remains among the most documented recognitions of her standing as a politician and human rights defender operating under the constraints of Myanmar's political environment.

Quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi

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If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated.
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If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated.
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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights are not given. They are earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights are not given. They are earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.
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If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.
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People keep saying I've changed. I used to be confrontational. But I'm - I haven't changed. It was - it's just that circumstances have changed.
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People keep saying I've changed. I used to be confrontational. But I'm - I haven't changed. It was - it's just that circumstances have changed.
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People must work in unison.
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People must work in unison.
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No, I was never afraid.
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No, I was never afraid.
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I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.
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I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.
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Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.
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Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.
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I look forward to trying the Internet.
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I look forward to trying the Internet.
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I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.
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I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.
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