Joshua Wong Quotes

I think Hong Kong people's struggle for democracy is similar to David versus Goliath. But this struggle is not just about me.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

The fight for democracy is a long-term battle.

Beyond the barricades we long to see a Hong Kong free from tyranny and a puppet government.

Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.

Hong Kong people do not keep silent and I urge people around the world to keep their eyes on Hong Kong and the passion with which people are fighting for basic rights. We never give up and we will not be silenced.

We shall continue our fight for democracy and freedom because we do not accept that Hong Kong will be transformed into a police state.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

We cannot have a situation where people decide to sit in places not allowed and when police remove them they say no. We can’t have that. That is a revolt to the system. Some are crying that they were beaten. Yes you will be thoroughly beaten. When the police say move, you move. If you don’t move, you invite the police to use force.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance.

We completely uphold the right of freedom of assembly. But there is always that important balance between security and freedom of expression in countries undergoing circumstances like ours.

Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away.

We will fight back until we have democracy.

It's interesting to me that the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, and in the marches, people were singing 'Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.'

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.

We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.