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Wei Jingsheng est né le 20 mai 1950 à Pékin. Ancien garde rouge, fils de hauts cadres communistes, il est un des plus célèbres dissidents chinois et symbole du mouvement de revendications démocratiques en Chine. Il fut pressenti à plusieurs reprises pour le Prix Nobel de la paix et reçut en 1996 le prix Sakharov pour la Liberté de Pensée. Wikipedia  

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Wei Jingsheng: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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The Fifth Modernization (1978) (excerpts)

“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.”

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The Fifth Modernization (1978) (excerpts)

“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.”

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

“For human beings, there is no difficulty that cannot be overcome. Rely on yourself, and you can overcome anything.”

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"In Exile, Free Speech at Last in The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/11/22/in-exile-free-speech-at-last/4591c34b-12c4-4a86-be28-261f6a260b8d/ (22 November 1997)

“I consider my release to be only a small victory for human rights and democracy.”

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"In Exile, Free Speech at Last in The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/11/22/in-exile-free-speech-at-last/4591c34b-12c4-4a86-be28-261f6a260b8d/ (22 November 1997)