suu kyi's 64th birthday
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On Your 64th Special Dayfrom your
world“sons and
daughters”We celebrate
with you
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
The people adore her.
Everywhere she goes, they
bedeck her with flowers
–roses, jasmine, chrysanthemums
…
Terry McCarthy, reporting in The Independent, 2 May 1989
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
"I can't meet you one by one,
but I hope to meet you all
in better days."…
Thanking foreign envoys at her 3rd Day trial, 20 May 2009
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
I look upon these past 6
years as having been a chance to experience the kind of life that not many people have…
At a press conference after her release in July 1995
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
It is my aim, to help the people in
Burma attain democracy
without further
violence or loss of life…
Interview with the London Times, 29 August 1988
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
Freedom from fear means;not just the
removal of the oppression that causes
fear in people’s
minds, but a change in their mindset when confronted by oppression …
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
That the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction… of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which
shape the course of
a nation’s development
The quintessential revolution should be:
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
A revolution which aims merely at changing
official policies and institutions with a view to
an improvement in
material conditions has little chance of
genuine success
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the
iniquities of the old order would continue to be
operative, posing a
constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
You shall know the truth
And The truth shall set you free…Her favourite scripture, St John 8.32
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
In fact one, could say that
peace is life itself…
Pre recorded by Debbie Stothard of ALTSEAN, disseminated by the NLD for Women of Burma Day in June 1999
on her 54th Birthday
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
According to a number of
psychologists, women are better able than men to
cope with crisis
situations …
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
We should use this ability to bring about peace and progress to our country, and to better the condition of peoples the world over…
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
There is a great need for our women of Burma to use
their capabilities to
bring democracy and human rights to our
country…
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
It is no longer possible even
for housewives to
keep out of politics, because
politics has invaded the traditional domain of
housewives…
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
The root cause of upward spiralling
commodity prices, greatly
increased charges for
electricity and rising costs of education and healthcare is a political one…
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
Her personal wish that the
new millennium
bring with it; freedom from
fear, and freedom from
want…
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09
“It was interesting to see security
officials craning to get a look at someone who is
clearly still a major figure” …
Mark Canning, UK Ambassador to Burma, on 3rd Day of her trial, 20May 2009
Once You were there, you know the way to
returnwhere you
belong,they are all
waitingfor Suu Kyi
now.
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