Joshua Wong Quotes

Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

I have the responsibility to tell everybody that I am not the only political prisoner in Hong Kong and that there will be more coming.

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.

The anti-extradition movement is larger and much more organised than the Umbrella Movement in 2014.

Protests [against Donald Trump] four nights running.Thousands marching across the country.

Nothing could be less intelligent than to assume, as many respectable persons still manage to do, that the forms of agitation which are popularly summed up in the terms socialism, anarchism, feminism, and pacifism are mere eccentricities of unbalanced minds, seeking to cloak their hatred of restraint and their cowardice under theories of social regeneration.

Americans have a tendency to exalt the concept of a popular uprising.

The signs and banners of protesters are the zoom lenses by which we can focus on the difficult issues of a society.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

Hacktivism: The merger of hacking and political activism can wreak enormous havoc.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

Rabble Rousers -- Communists -- Outsiders

Am I allowed to suggest that we owe much to these stubborn and sectarian people, those indefatigable strikers who take over our factories and bring disorder to our streets, these obstinate creatures who ceaselessly fought for reforms while fantasizing of the Revolution, these Marxists who, marching against the current of History, disturbed the complacent sleep of capitalism? … Communism is dead. Let us rejoice.

We [the Rukus Society] created a culture of resistance where going to jail was considered a privilege. We refused bail, went to jail and took our lumps without complaining. We were confident of the support we had ...

Part of organizing is that we’re not all going to be marching in the same rhythm. It’s messy, and that’s the beauty of it.

There are actually not too many people in the prisons. There were hundreds and thousands of people who came on the streets voicing their opinions. If we had to capture all of them, the prisons would not even have space. The few that are in prison are the ones who vandalized and created violence and took away the safety of the people.

Social media now make it easier to organize protest movements, even - or perhaps especially - in authoritarian regimes.

The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.

Historically, mass demonstrations have worked best at shifting public opinion and pressuring the powers-that-be when organizers highlighted one concrete demand: 'Bring Our Boys Home from Vietnam'; 'End Segregation Now'; 'Support Women's Right to Choose.'

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

What we saw in Tiananmen Square 31 years ago was a massacre, a massacre of innocent people that came from Hong Kong but also Chinese people to protest.

I'm not a hero. The Hongkongers who confronted tear gas in the streets are the heroes.

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