Joshua Wong Quotes

I believe the absolute majority of Hongkongers have never felt that Hong Kong independence is a viable option.

I believe it's important that Hong Kong does not become another Chinese city.

The continued erosion of the one country, two systems framework puts at risk Hong Kong's long-established special status in international affairs.

If Hong Kong could exercise democratic self-governance under the sovereignty of China, it would not be necessary for us to take this step on the path toward independence.

I am a pro-democracy activist asking for free elections in Hong Kong.

I hope those who previously only thought of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee regarding Hong Kong would now realise that the city is also a place fighting for democracy.

My generation, the so-called post-'90s generation that came of age after the territory was returned to China, would have the most to lose if Hong Kong were to become like just another mainland Chinese city, where information is not freely shared and the rule of law is ignored.

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

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

Since Britain handed over jurisdiction of its former colony to China 20 years ago, the city has operated under the notion of 'one country, two systems.' That increasingly appears to be an empty slogan.

The path for the democratic development of Hong Kong since the return to the motherland has been full of twists and turns. We have had some successes and some failures.

The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.

And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

We are as good judges of our interest and safety, and the means of preserving them, as the non-slaveholding States are of theirs, and rather better than they can be of ours.

I firmly believe that Scotland's place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power's sake.

No Province shall be transferred from one Government to another without the consent by plebiscite or otherwise of the population of such Province.

No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass.

States should have enormous input into the decisions that affect them.

I know that the Southern People prefer a Govt. of their own but as soon as it is demonstrated that there cannot be an independent Southern Confederacy, many then will yield obedience rather than lose their Estates.

Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

Being independent caused us nothing but trouble. I do not want Chechnya to be independent from Russia.

Hong Kong is not an independent entity... and cannot decide, on its own, its political development.