Voice of the Day: Aung San Suu Kyi
06-19-2009
For millenia women have dedicated themselves almost exclusively to the task of nurturing, protecting, and caring for the young and the old, striving for the conditions of peace that favor life as a whole. … The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just, and peaceful life for all.
- Aung San Suu Kyi,
Burma’s pro-democracy leader and political prisoner, who turns 64 today and awaits the verdict on her most recent arrest.
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