Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.
The free world led by the U. S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.
I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
I have no enemies and no hatred
Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.
The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a series of essays called "The Iron Law of Oligarchy" and in these essays he discusses how no matter what sorts of freedoms are advertised or put into a society structure, that all societies, all form of governments - whether they be a Roman republic, whether they be a democracy, whether they be a Russian communist system, whatever, a tribe. . . a tribal council - all of the continuously, throughout the ages, have all converted back into an oligarchy.
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one another.