Fang Lizhi

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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"All of us have direct experience of the Supreme."

- Fang Lizhi

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"[Marxism-Leninism is] a worn-out dress that should be thrown away."

- Fang Lizhi

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"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?"

- Fang Lizhi

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"A rising economic power that violates human rights is a threat to peace."

- Fang Lizhi

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