Freedom From Fear

How does Aung San Suu Kyi use imagery in Freedom From Fear?

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"It was predictable that as soon as the issue of human rights became an integral part of the movement for democracy, the official media should start ridiculing and condemning the concept .... despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component ... seeing its citizens only as a mindless—and helpless—mass to be manipulated at will. It is as though people were incidental to a nation rather than its very life-blood ... official creed is required to be accepted with an unquestioning faith more in keeping with orthodox tenets of the biblical religions which have held sway in the West than with the more liberal Buddhist attitude: It is proper to doubt, to be uncertain ... Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing. Nor upon tradition, nor upon rumours ... When you know for yourself that certain things are unwholesome and wrong, abandon them ... When you know for yourself that certain things are wholesome and good, accept them .... The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large. Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression ... people ... learn to dissemble and keep silent .... There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done. Law as an instrument of state oppression is a familiar feature of totalitarianism. Without a popularly elected government and an independent judiciary to ensure due process, authorities can enforce as 'law' arbitrary decrees that are flagrant negations of all acceptable norms of justice." Section 5, pp. 174-176

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Freedom From Fear