- Hardcover: 301 pages
- Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S. (July 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1888363509
- ISBN-13: 978-1888363500
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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"[Shows] Aung San Suu Kyi's humour, erudition, wisdom and accessibility, and demonstrate[s] why she has become a world spiritual leader." --New York Times
"I am delighted that The Voice of Hope is being republished. This is a message that the world should hear."--President Jimmy Carter
"This is a remarkable book, as inspired as it is wise. Read it and learn from Aung San Suu Kyi's amazing life."-- Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
"Suu Kyi is one of the most remarkable and brave women of our time. Her dying husband Michael was refused permission to go to visit her. Even the phone calls I used to have with her have been stopped for some years. The regime in Burma is an outrage, and it is a blot on the international community that we have done so little about it. This book is testimony to the staunch commitment and sacrifice of an astonishingly courageous and visionary person"--The Rt Hon the Lord David Steel of Aikwood KT
"Aung San Suu Kyi is a remarkable and courageous human being. Listen to her voice and be inspired...Burma is the next South Africa."--Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"This remarkable testiment offers unprecedented insight into the heart and mind of one of the world’s most courageous and inspiring leaders"--Yoga & Health --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"I am delighted that The Voice of Hope is being republished. This is a message that the world should hear."--President Jimmy Carter
"This is a remarkable book, as inspired as it is wise. Read it and learn from Aung San Suu Kyi's amazing life."-- Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
"Suu Kyi is one of the most remarkable and brave women of our time. Her dying husband Michael was refused permission to go to visit her. Even the phone calls I used to have with her have been stopped for some years. The regime in Burma is an outrage, and it is a blot on the international community that we have done so little about it. This book is testimony to the staunch commitment and sacrifice of an astonishingly courageous and visionary person"--The Rt Hon the Lord David Steel of Aikwood KT
"Aung San Suu Kyi is a remarkable and courageous human being. Listen to her voice and be inspired...Burma is the next South Africa."--Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"This remarkable testiment offers unprecedented insight into the heart and mind of one of the world’s most courageous and inspiring leaders"--Yoga & Health --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prize Laureate, mother of two, and devout Buddhist, is one of the most inspiring examples of spiritually infused politics and fearless leadership that the world has ever seen. Daughter of the martyred Burmese national hero who negotiated Burma's independence from Britain in the 1940s, Aung San Suu Kyi led the pro-democracy movement in Burma in 1988. The movement was quickly and brutally crushed by the military junta, and Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest.
The Voice of Hope is a rare and intimate journey to the heart of her struggle. Over a period of nine months, Alan Clements, the first American ordained as a Buddhist monk in Burma, met with Aung San Suu Kyi shortly after her release from her first house arrest in July 1995. With her trademark ability to speak directly and compellingly, she presents here her vision of engaged compassion and describes how she has managed to sustain her hope and optimism.
The Voice of Hope is a rare and intimate journey to the heart of her struggle. Over a period of nine months, Alan Clements, the first American ordained as a Buddhist monk in Burma, met with Aung San Suu Kyi shortly after her release from her first house arrest in July 1995. With her trademark ability to speak directly and compellingly, she presents here her vision of engaged compassion and describes how she has managed to sustain her hope and optimism.
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A good history of why & where the Burmese struggle for freedom & democracy is and what can be expected under a government run by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Not the greatest read but then most history books aren't. A series of interviews with Herself and key supporters,this book at least made me order a supporters "T" Shirt. I only wish that the world governments would treat this country as more important than they do. Reading this book has made me buy others related to this subject and as a frequent traveller to the Far East may help me in my arguments with others about the subject. Eventually the corrupt Government of Burma or Myanmar as they call it will collapse as they all do and hopefully the Lady will still be around to influence or run their replacement, my opinion after reading this is that she certainly deserves to.
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An interesting insight to this amazing lady, and the country. Gives historical information and through the conversations enables you to form an opinion on how the people of the country have lived.
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This lady is a shining example of what I strongly believe to be the only hope Homo Sapiens has of surviving as a species. Women that have been priveleged to hold positions of President or Prime Minister, have, to a woman, been highly respected and successful. It is invariably the men who object, because they have this problem with their own self importance, or their perception of their own importance. We are all equal in this world and is it about time some of these men got to grip with reality. I was well aware of this lady simply because my late wife had the chance to meet here before she took that ill-fated trip home to be incarcerated. Burma is a Buddhist country and their leaders have been anything but Buddhist in their rule. Perfection, in her words, is about purity in thought, word and deed. I agree absolutely and practice that in my own life - at 74. The quicker a lot more people started thinking and acting in these terms, the better our society would be.
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