“We are going to veto it to show our determination that we are not going to accept this fake democracy.”

—  Albert Ho

September 3, 2014 Democracy isn't dead, say Hong Kong's Occupy Central activists https://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/03/world/asia/hong-kong-democracy-occupy-central/index.html

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