Ji-li Jiang Quotes

#1. Anger rose in me. Didn't they know how hard I'd been working to overcome my family background? Now all my efforts were wasted.

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#2. When I looked around me, fate seemed to be the only explanation for what was happening.

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#3. Now you can show your revolutionary determination." He paused. "We want you to testify against your father at the struggle meeting.

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#4. What a terrible man, I thought, worse than a traitor. At least a traitor betrays people by telling the truth. Uncle Zhu tried to save himself by telling lies.

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#5. I was willing to take on the struggle to establish myself in a new country because I knew that was the price I would have to pay for the freedom to think, speak, and write whatever I pleased.

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#6. Physics, Chemistry, and Biology had been replaced by Fundamentals of Industry and Agriculture, because of Chairman Mao's instruction to "combine education with practical experience.

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#7. Our great leader, Chairman Mao, has taught us, 'Every reactionary is the same; if you do not hit him, he will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish by itself.'" Her

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#8. If I can help Americans to understand China, and the Chinese to learn about the United States, even a little, I will feel very rewarded. I

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#9. But at home he was our humorous, kind, and wise Dad. He loved reading, and he loved including the whole family in his discoveries. He

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#10. Seventeen years after Liberation, the newspapers told us, our schools were not bringing us up to be good red socialists and communists, as we had thought, but revisionists. We

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#11. This is the most frightening lesson of the Cultural Revolution: Without a sound legal system, a small group or even a single person can take control of an entire country. This is as true now as it was then. Thirty

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#12. Here is the opportunity for you to help Chairman Mao's revolution. Who can win the most honor by telling us first?

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#13. Now let's sincerely and wholeheartedly wish long life to our great leader, great teacher, great commander, and great helmsman, Chairman Mao." Her

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#14. Her actions remind me that, even under unbearable circumstances, one can still believe in justice. And above all, love.

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#15. I heard the distant whistle of a passing train, and I wished I could get on it and go far away, to a place without struggle meetings, without class status, without confessions.

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#16. Now, you have to choose between two roads." Thin-Face looked straight into my eyes. "You can break with your family and follow Chairman Mao, or you can follow your father and become an enemy of the people." His

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#17. The poor teachers! Trained in the traditional sciences, they were totally lost when trying to teach us about pigs or paddy fields.

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#18. I thought about my beautiful dreams and wondered if they would drift away just like those lovely soap bubbles.

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#19. It felt almost like a dream from long ago. I remembered another Ji-li, one who was always praised by her teachers and respected by her classmates. A Ji-li who always pushed herself to do better, achieve more.

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#20. It was strange. When I had read the newspaper, I had been enraged by the revisionist educational system that had been poisoning our youth for so many years. But now that I actually had to criticize the teachers who taught us every day, I could not find anything really bad to say about any of them.

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#21. My family was too precious to forget, and too rare to replace.

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#22. Where ever i go, the Cultural Revolution followed me

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#23. Except for a few who actually killed people, hardly any "revolutionaries" have been punished for what they did during the Cultural Revolution. Those

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