"It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning the very armlessness into the central means for deliverance".
(EPIGRAMS FROM GANDHIJI, T-5-193, http://www.mkgandhi.org/epigrams/)
"It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism that turn innocent songs into threatening chants of war".
(Aung San Suu Kyi, LETTERS FROM BURMA, No 23,
http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/Letters_from_Burma).
[Hindu and Buddhist statues from Bangkok. Foto di Marzia Poerio]
