99 Quotes by Joshua Wong

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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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    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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    The fight for democracy relies on community support.

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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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    I have been fighting for democracy since I was 15 when I organised a strike to oppose the Hong Kong government's plan to introduce the Chinese patriotic school education; 100,000 people surrounded a government building with students asking for democracy for every citizen.

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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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    As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.

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    We recognize Taiwan as the beacon of Asian democracy.

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

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