Aung San Suu Kyi

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June 19, 1945 in Rangoon, Myanmar

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http://www.dassk.com/

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Myanmar opposition leader, daughter of Aung San (a martyred national hero of independent Burma) and Khin Kyi (a prominent Burmese diplomat), and winner in 1991 of the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Aung San Suu Kyi was two years old when her father, then the de facto prime minister of what would shortly become independent Burma, was assassinated. She attended schools in Burma until 1960, when her mother was appointed ambassador to India. After further study in India, she attended the University of Oxford, where she met her future husband. She had two children and lived a rather quiet life until 1988, when she returned to Burma to nurse her dying mother. There the mass slaughter of protesters against the brutal and unresponsive rule of the military s...more

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Books by Aung San Suu Kyi

Average rating: 4.18 · 438 ratings · 63 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Freedom from Fear by Aung San Suu Kyi, Michael Aris (Editor, Introduction), Václav Havel (Foreword to the First Edition) 4.16 avg rating — 172 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Letters from Burma 4.10 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Voice of Hope by Aung San Suu Kyi, Alan Clements 4.36 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1997 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Aung San of Burma 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Aung San / Leaders Of Asia Series 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Let's Visit Bhutan 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Burma and India: Some aspects of intellectual life under colonialism 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1990	My rating:
	Let's Visit Burma 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1985	My rating:
	Nepal (Let's Visit Series) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Une Révolution Des Consciences: Discours D'aung San Suu Kyi, 9 Juillet 1990. Suivi De Appeler Le Peuple À La Lutte Ouverte: Discours De Léon Trotsky Prononcé Lors De Son Procès, 4 Octobre 1906 by Aung San Suu Kyi, Léon Trotsky (Contributor) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:

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Quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi

“In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued."

(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

tags: appreciation , empowerment , equality , men , women

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“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear

tags: corruption , fear , oppression , power

27 people liked it

“If you're feeling helpless, help someone. ”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

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