Today is a great day of Myanmar as well as ASEAN, Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi delivers her Nobel speech at the Nobel ceremony in Oslo's City Hall.
"A positive aspect of living in isolation was that I had ample time in which to ruminate over the meaning of words and precepts that I had known and accepted all my life. As a Buddhist, I had heard about dukha, generally translated as suffering, since I was a small child. Almost on a daily basis elderly, and sometimes not so elderly, people around me would murmur “dukha, dukha” when they suffered from aches and pains or when they met with some small, annoying mishaps. However, it was only during my years of house arrest that I got around to investigating the nature of the six great dukha."
"We are fortunate to be living in an age when social welfare and humanitarian assistance are recognized not only as desirable but necessary. I am fortunate to be living in an age when the fate of prisoners of conscience anywhere has become the concern of peoples everywhere, an age when democracy and human rights are widely, even if not universally, accepted as the birth right of all. How often during my years under house arrest have I draw strength from my favourite passages in the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:"
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