NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/misc/activism/progress/9261

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From: [e-mail] (Rich Winkel)
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The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of
an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those
mental attitides and values which shape the course of a
nation's development. 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. Without a revolution in spirit, the forces
which had produced inequities of the old order would continue
to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of
reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for
freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united
determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices
in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting
influences of desire, ill-will, ignorance, and fear.
 -Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Dissident, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

From: Kerry Miller <[e-mail]>


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