10 Quotes by Gao Zhisheng

I can't guarantee that you will win the lawsuit - in fact you will almost certainly lose. But I warn you that if you are too timid to confront their barbaric behavior, you will be completely defeated.

People across this country are awakening to their rights and seizing on the promise of the law. But you cannot be a rights lawyer in this country without becoming a rights case yourself.

The police in different cities, including Beijing, are starting a mass hunt for hunger strikers.

When I got out to see the license plate, the car started coming toward me and tried to hit me.

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Our event is completely peaceful and legal. We're using our own bodies, in our own homes to do what we choose. Yet people who have joined the hunger strike are disappearing. I don't know exactly how many people, but this is expanding. I've been followed by the police for more than three months and now they've tapped my phones and cut off most of my communication.

They disappeared when they saw I had reached my home, where the plainclothes agents were outside.

It's because we have made the government look really bad by the hunger strikes. And its only way to resolve differences with its own people is violence.

They were worried that I was going to try to go to Zhao's house to pay my respects and they increased security outside my house from 20 to 40 agents.