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.

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

We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.

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.

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.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

When liberty returns, I will return.

I fight against Fascism; that is my trade.

Who are we to judge the people of Ecuador? We cannot condemn people when they take to the streets.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations. On the other hand, so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

At the end of the day, violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

Across the region, those rights that we take for granted are being claimed with joy by those who are prying loose the grip of an iron fist.

The major conflicts of our day are autocrats verses the village square.

Sometimes, when democracy has to fight with autocracy, what can be done? We have to fight; somebody has to.

Even if the country is run by a Mussolini, free speech will find its way.

The fight for democracy is a long-term battle.

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

A nation should not be a hostage to one man's thirst for power, and it won't. Belarusians have woken up. The point of no return has passed.

Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.

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.

Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.