Mahn Ba Zan and the Karen Revolution

Quotations from Mahn Ba Zan
- We have to create our own destiny and fight to obtain freedom. The condition is such that it can be achieved only by fighting for it. Dying is going to the earth, and living would be toward the golden parasol. There is nothing more precious than Freedom.

-The Karen Revolution is the same as the Mon Revolution;
The Mon Revolution is the same as the Karen Revolution;
We have the same destiny;

When the Karen celebrates the victory of Revolution, the Mon Will also Achieve Freedom!
-I am a Karen. My nationality people are the oppressed slaves. I am therefore a slave. The Karens are humans among all human beings, and thus should receive the full benefit of human rights. As slaves they cannot enjoy human rights. To get the benefits of human rights, there should be freedom. To obtain freedom, the Karen must revolt and fight to eliminate their enslavement from the main root.
-Resistance or Revolution should not be achieved for the individual, but comprise the payback to the nationalities and people.
-What ever is done, the important thing is sincerity among comrades. Whoever and whatever other people do, all of you must be only sincere and faithful in your work.

• Our army was born from among the ethnic nationals, comprised of the land’s sons and daughters. When not involved in military operations, they carry out communal tasks, helping their parents in various pursuits. Only when the people love us like their children and support us, the entire mass will be involved in the Revolution, and this armed resistance will bear victory.
• Our army commanders and troops should mix with the people, nurture and sustain the people, learn from the people, and the people must be instructed in our Army’s military, political, and organizational affairs, winning the support of the people, the enormous power of the people being the source of our greatest abiding courageous armed organization, doing the most exhaustive work.
• Do what ought to be done first rather than what is mere wishfulness; attend to the current basic situation before turning to excessive ambition; have perseverance, sincerity, do not be supercilious, do not contemplate cliques, breed no sycophants, be patient, uphold meekness, live simply, keep the policy of looking only for the good, do not easily be frightened when spooked, beware of flattery, do not always yield when entreated, and be constantly alert,-there are the precepts for revolutionaries.