I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.

The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.