Fang Lizhi
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Fang Lizhi (12 February 1936 – 6 April 2012) was a Chinese astrophysicist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He eventually had to move to the USA.
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Quotes [edit]
Obituary of Fang Lizhi, The Economist, 14th April 2012, p.98 [edit]
- All of us have direct experience of the Supreme.
- Marxism-Leninism is a worn-out dress that should be thrown away.
- If every one of those good words - liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights - has been called "bourgeois", what on earth does that leave for us?
- A rising economic power that violates human rights is a threat to peace.
