Joshua Wong Quotes

I am against revolutions. We have had negative experience with coups and rallies in the past. We remember the shooting at the White House in Moscow The new Russian protest is the most beautiful, most peaceful, most intelligent protest in the world—not a single broken window, not a single burned care or victim.

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.

October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep.

During the Gezi protests and PKK terror campaigns, the unity and solidarity of the Turkish nation were attacked.

Anybody who walks out peacefully, who protests peacefully, that's what this country was built on.

I would still ask the government not to drive the people of India to desperation, or else there is no other course left open to the people except to inaugurate the policy of non-cooperation, though not necessarily the programme of Mr. Gandhi.

Debate and discussions strengthen democracy but violence during protests weaken democracy.

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

Hong Kong's government needs to bear most of the responsibility for the Fishball Revolution.

Will Beijing really send out the army to suppress our protests? Never say never.

A boycott is the most peaceful and passive kind of protest there is and can be. We do not say we hate you or even say that you are wrong. We just say that we don’t want to ride your bus.

Here we have a protest law. This law does not prevent protests but regulates them.

When we were here during the General Assembly, before that there was another meeting in Pittsburgh, and there were some demonstrations. Police treated the people violently.... The governments and the political systems in the West don’t believe actually in human rights.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

Protest is OK. But protests, according to my King family legacy, should be peaceful.

There's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was.

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

People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights.

During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened.

If people want to protest, to get out there and express themselves, as long as they do it peacefully, they should be encouraged to do so.

The continued erosion of the one country, two systems framework puts at risk Hong Kong's long-established special status in international affairs.

We have the freedom of speech. We are able to hold hands in protest and stand up for what we believe in and have people hear what you have to say.

From horrific incidents of police brutality and complicity in indiscriminate attacks by triads on citizens to arbitrary mass arrests and the banning of demonstrations, the government has employed nearly every weapon in its war chest to intimidate Hong Kongers into silence and to suppress their popular struggle for democracy and freedom.