Wei Jingsheng Inspirational Quotes (4)

We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?

Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.