Joshua Wong Quotes

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Joshua Wong

Profession : Activist

Birth : October 13, 1996

Hong Kong's government needs to bear most of the responsibility for the Fishball Revolution.

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If I don't commit to fighting for the future, 20 years later, 30 years later, after the end of the expiration date of the joint declaration, Hong Kong will be more at risk and in greater danger.

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We want Hongkongers to decide the future of Hong Kong.

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If the Internet or air traffic of the financial center of the world shuts down, of course the world needs to have a say on it.

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We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.

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I am one of the facilitators, helping to make the voice of Hongkongers heard in the international community. I also organize student class boycotts and provide assistance for high school students.

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The Umbrella Movement can be described as an encyclopedia. Politicians and student leaders wrote it, and let the masses read it and react passively.

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The Umbrella Movement was a legacy, not a victory, because there weren't any concrete policies or systematic reforms after it.

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No one wants to be sent to prison, including me.

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Hong Kong is the city with the highest degree of freedom of all the Chinese territories.

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I'm optimistic Hong Kong will achieve universal suffrage - no matter the attitude of Beijing.

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Carrie Lam is a proxy leader.The final decision-maker is President Xi.

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We do not believe in authoritarian rule.

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Hong Kong people may be ethnically Chinese, but lots of people do not consider ourselves, including me, as Chinese citizens.

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In 2011, when I established the activist group Scholarism, I could have not imagined that a year later, 100,000 people would take to the street and occupy for a week to urge the government to withdraw the national education curriculum.

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I hope Hong Kong isn't just named Hong Kong but it can still be the Hong Kong we desire.

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People may recognize me as some sort of superhero, but it's different. Spider-Man and all these other superheroes, they get superpowers and do what they want to save the city. If we need to save Hong Kong, we can't rely on superpowers, we can just rely on the people.

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Carrie Lam is not the leader elected by people of Hong Kong.

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