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Aung San
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“Let us therefore join hands, Britons, Burmans and all nations alike, to build up an abiding fruitful peace over the foundations of the hard-won victory that all of us desiring progressive direction in our own affairs and in the world at large, have at long last snatched firmly and completely from the grabbing hands of Fascist barbarians, a peace, as I have said, not of the graveyard, but creative of freedom, progress and prosperity in the world.”
Aung San (1915–1947) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address delivered at the meeting of East and West Association held on August 29, 1945, at the City Hall of Rangoon
“It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured that democratic freedom in theory as well as in practice.”
Aung San (1915–1947) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address delivered at the meeting of East and West Association held on August 29, 1945, at the City Hall of Rangoon
“I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.”
Aung San (1915–1947) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Presidential address to the first Congress of the AFPFL (20 January, 1946)
“We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.”
Aung San (1915–1947) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Presidential address to the AFPFL Supreme Council Session (August 1946)
“In so far as nationalism inculcates in us a sense of national and social justice which call upon us to fight any system that is oppressive or tyrannical both in our country and the world, there I am completely with nationalism. I hate Imperialism whether British or Japanese or Burmese.”
Aung San (1915–1947) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to a meeting of the Anglo-Burman Council at the City Hall, Rangoon (8 December, 1946)