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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:28am on 2007-07-23

"In a revolutionary movement there is always the danger that political exigencies might obscure, or even nullify, essential spiritual aims. A firm insistence on the inviolability and primacy of such aims is not mere idealism but a necessary safeguard against an Animal Farm syndrome where the new order ... takes on the murky colours of the very system is has replaced." -- Aung San Suu Kyi, from her essay "In Quest of Democracy", collected in Freedom from Fear (edited by Michael Aris), 1991. Thanks to [info] shirad, who adds interesting thoughts about other world-changers and non-violence

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