A Quote by Aung San Suu Kyi

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese - Activist
Born: June 19, 1945

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world.

Deeyah Khan

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

Andrew Young

Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.

Carol Tavris

There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.

Natan Sharansky

To use the terms that are reserved for official enemies, it is the commissars and apparatchiks, not the dissidents, who are respected and privileged within their own societies.

Noam Chomsky

To help advance democracy, we need to allow for the reunification of Cuban families and the direct sending of remittances to the island's brave dissidents.

Joe Garcia

This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.

Evgeny Morozov

[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy.

William J. Duiker

The rule of law that China's dissidents ask for is important to U.S. businesses investing in China as well.

Tom Malinowski

The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy.

Andy Garcia

Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.

Mel Martinez

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Ludwig von Mises

Luckily I was not born in Eastern Europe, because I might have been born into the communist establishment and I'm glad I was not. But in Israel, communists were dissidents. So you grow up in an environment which is very critical of Israeli policies.

Amira Hass

The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated. And, in fact, we didn't discover it. It was discovered by a group of Iranian dissidents outside the country who pointed the international community at the location.

David Kay

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