24 Quotes by Ji-li Jiang

I heard the distant whistle of a passing train, and I wished I could get on it and go far away, to a place without struggle meetings, without class status, without confessions.

I stared at the large sheet of paper spread out in front of me, wondering what to write. It was strange. When I had read the newspaper, I had been enraged by the revisionist educational system that had been poisoning our youth for so many years. But now that I actually had to criticize the teachers who taught us every day, I could not find anything really bad to say about any of them.

Chairman Mao taught us that “inner beauty is much more valuable than outward appearance.” How.

Leniency for confession, severity for resistance! Hand.

Suicide was a crime. It was “alienating oneself from the people,” according to what Chairman Mao said. So.

Anger rose in me. Didn’t they know how hard I’d been working to overcome my family background? Now all my efforts were wasted.