“You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.”

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 98

2016, Remarks to the People of Cuba (March 2016)

1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
Context: You cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, no teacher, no authority. There is only you — your relationship with others and with the world — there is nothing else. When you realize this, it either brings great despair, from which comes cynicism and bitterness, or, in facing the fact that you and nobody else is responsible for the world and for yourself, for what you think, what you feel, how you act, all self-pity goes. Normally we thrive on blaming others, which is a form of self-pity.

As long as you are enslaved to the external situation, you will always be in some level of suffering because the outside situation is never going to be hundred percent in your control.
Encounter the Enlightened (2001)

UN expert on democracy highlights importance of free expression, information http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=46355&amp;Cr=information&amp;Cr1=#.Um9rdr_3DjA. <br class="br">2013

Translation: The fight is not over. <br class="br"> The Official Website of the Senate of the Philippines http://www.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2009/0820_escudero2.asp <br class="br">2009, Statement: Remembering the King