Mao Zedong Quotes
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
Mao, Zedong. "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People." Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, vol. 5, Foreign Languages Press, 1977, p. 408.
While stating this and perhaps believing it, he still was the President of an autocracy where diversity was not tolerated at all. Religious police roamed the nation beating men whose beards were not long enough or women they believed improperly dressed, politicians who held diverse views were not allowed to run for the Parliament or even the Presidency, religious dissenters were executed for heresy.
She was the first member of European royalty to embrace the Bahai faith. This faith is positive and supportive of all other faiths—an unusual characteristic for a religion. It even speaks well of Islam where literal interpretations of Sharia—Islamic Law—require that all Bahais be put to death. In Iran, they were still murdering Bahais in the 21st century.
Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, his theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism.
