Author Profile
Joshua Wong
1996 • Chinese • Activist
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Showing 60 quotesHaving grown up under Chinese rule, I don't have any memory of colonial Hong Kong or feel any attachment to it.— Joshua Wong
The police force has repeatedly demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to carry out its fundamental mandate: to serve and protect the people of Hong Kong. It has been reduced to a mere instrument of repression subservient to the political agenda of Beijing's regime in Hong Kong.— Joshua Wong
Even if the CCP is willing to stick with 'one country, two systems' in principle, no one can say for certain whether Hong Kong's freedoms of speech and the press would survive in reality.— Joshua Wong
Beijing's imperial reach extends far and wide, from Taiwan and Xinjiang to the South China Sea and beyond.— Joshua Wong
When I was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, I felt that this should go to all of the Hong Kong people who fight for democracy.— Joshua Wong
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.— Joshua Wong
I love the sense of belonging in Hong Kong. I love that it is such an international city. I love our food and our language. The people are energetic and passionate. I just really love this city.— Joshua Wong
It may take a generation to achieve democracy. But our generation must accomplish this and not pass the buck to the next.— Joshua Wong
Some people say that given the government's firm stance against genuine universal suffrage, our demands are impossible to achieve. But I believe activism is about making the impossible possible.— Joshua Wong
In a world where ideas and ideals flow freely, we want what everybody else in an advanced society seems to have: a say in our future.— Joshua Wong
My generation, the so-called post-'90s generation that came of age after the territory was returned to China, would have the most to lose if Hong Kong were to become like just another mainland Chinese city, where information is not freely shared and the rule of law is ignored.— Joshua Wong
Our city finds itself in an uncomfortable place: on the frontline between freedom and auto_cracy.— Joshua Wong