Wei Jingsheng: Quotes about people

Wei Jingsheng is Chinese democracy activist and dissident. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“What is democracy? True democracy means the holding of power by the laboring masses. Are laborers unqualified to hold power? Yugoslavia has taken this road and proved to us that even without dictatorial rulers, big or small, the people can work even better.”

Wei Jingsheng

The Fifth Modernization (1978) (excerpts)

Democracy , People

“People have tightened their belts for decades since liberation. They have worked as hard as they could and actually produced much wealth. But where has all the wealth gone? Some say that it has gone to fatten some comparatively small autocratic regimes like Vietnam.”

Wei Jingsheng

The Fifth Modernization (1978) (excerpts)

Wealth , People

“I wasn't an especially rebellious child, but I can say I gave my parents a lot of trouble at times. Because I had a lot of guts and was always taking risks, I either got hurt or sometimes broke other people's things and caused problems. I always sparked a lot of trouble.”

Wei Jingsheng

Interview with the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley (1998), Background

Hurt , People , Time , Problem