“Power and money reign supreme in our nation today. Universities count for nothing, and scholarship and ideas count for even less. Love, truth, and sacrifice are meaningless concepts, while betrayal and collective amnesia are taken as a matter of course.”

— Liu Xiaobo

No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems

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