Aung San Suu Kyi, human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was detained in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta. . This collection of writings reflects Aung San Suu Kyi's greatest hopes and fears for her people and her concern about the need for international cooperation, and gives poignant and humorous ...
For the last fiftenn years of Burma's traumatic history, Aung San Suu Kyi has been the inspirational leader of attempts to restore democracy to her country. In these fifty-two pieces she paints a vivid, poignant yet fundamentally optimistic picture of her native land. She evokes the country's seasons and scenery, customs and festivities, and ...
This compilation includes remarkable interviews with leading spiritual social activists of our century, including Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ram Dass, Joan Baez, Gary Snyder, Joanna Macy, Cesar Chavez, David Steindl-Rast, A.T. Ariyaratne, Diane Nash, and Mubarak Awad.
"The dialogues [in "The Voice of Hope"] express Aung San Suu Kyi's humor, erudition, wisdom and accessibility, and demonstrate why she has become a world spiritual leader."-"The New York Times Book Review" "Reading this book, one can well understand why [Aung San Suu Kyi] has been compared to such heroes of freedom as Nelson Mandela and VAclav ...
This collection of realistic stories about the unhappy lives of Polish immigrants in the Chicago slums is, for many admirers of Algren, their favorite work.
Aung San Suu Kyi, human rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was detained in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta, following a spontaneous uprising that swept a nation silenced by more than 25 years of political repression. Today she remains under house arrest in Rangoon, a prisoner of conscience, separated from ...
First published by Viking in 1993 and now available in paperback, a collection of writings from the leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, who has recently been released from house arrest after 6 years in detention. Edited by Michael Aris.
Aung San Suu Kyi has suffered constant harrassment and abuse from the Burmese authorities, as well as separation from her family, but she is still determined to continue her struggle for human rights and democracy. This is a collection of 12 interviews conducted by American journalist and former Buddhist monk, Alan Clements, on such subjects as ...
Aung San Suu Kyi is known for her courageous stand for democracy and human rights inside Burma (now Myanmar). Forced to endure many years of house arrest by the military junta, she continues to act as a focus for change inside a country that is ruled by one of the most hard-line dictatorships in the world. Such is her determined action for the ...
Aung San Suu Kyi's collected writings - edited by her late husband, whom the ruling military junta prevented from visiting Burma as he was dying of cancer - reflects her greatest hopes and fears for her fellow Burmese people, and her concern about the need for international co-operation in the continuing fight for Burma's freedom. Bringing ...
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