It wasn't a particularly political conversation that we were having but somehow the topic of Aung Sun Suu Kyi came up. And it wasn't too long after that Nelson Mandela's name came up as well. They were, to me, two of the greatest people who ever lived in this century.
Yes, even compared to Martin Luther King, Gandhi and Mother Theresa.
Aung Sung Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela were fighting for social causes that they weren't even sure will happen, much lest happen in their lifetime, and they may even die without saying a single aorta of change. And they did it at great personal cost and sacrifice. No one great person I know has ever been willing to fight for such a 'worthless' cost.
What courage, to fight against society's entranced norms. What nobility, to give up self and family to a cause that cannot even be seen. What foolishness, to believe in a cause that may not even happen in one's lifetime.
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