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Edward Michael Law-Yone
Journalist · 1911–1980
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Edward Michael Law-Yone was a Burmese journalist who founded and edited The Nation, an influential English-language newspaper in Burma. Through sober editorials, the paper criticized governmental abuses and defended civil rights and press freedom, earning Law-Yone the 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism and Literature. After the 1962 military coup, he was detained and later lived in exile, where he remained active as an official, author, lecturer, and translator.
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Read quote → ✓Source verified“I hold entirely with the view that power corrupts, that absolute power corrupts.”
Read quote → ✓Source verified“Fortunately for our sanity, there appears, at infrequent intervals, out of the mass of ineptitude, neglect and corruption, a new personality who by his example and accomplishments reveals a greatness of spirit.”