Aung San Suu Kyi — "If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many,…"
If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace laureate (1991) who spent 15 years under house arrest before her party's 2015 election win.
Closely associated with
Václav Havel (Czech dissident-turned-president) and Nelson Mandela (the moral-leader template she was often compared to).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar military commander-in-chief — deposed Suu Kyi in the 2021 coup and continues to detain her — the institutional military power her movement spent decades resisting.