Chen Guangcheng Quotes

#1. Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
-Anne Shirley

L.M. Montgomery

#2. Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

Frances O'Grady

#3. I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.

Chen Guangcheng

#4. I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

John Carney

#5. How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Chen Guangcheng

#6. I can be jailed again at any time, it is very easy. They can say I am a criminal and just lock me up.

Chen Guangcheng

#7. Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

Chen Guangcheng

#8. I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

Chen Guangcheng

#9. We are [God's] by creation, and again by redemption. He has every right to tell me what to do with my mind and body. I have. I right to do whatever I want with my body.

Randy Alcorn

#10. The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

Chen Guangcheng

#11. I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

Chen Guangcheng

#12. I am not in exile.

Chen Guangcheng

#13. Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#14. My fervent hope is that it would be possible for me and my family to leave for the U.S. on Hillary Clinton's plane,

Chen Guangcheng

#15. No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

Chen Guangcheng

#16. The Holy Eucharist is a need of the heart of Christ, just as it is a need of our hearts." "Sanctify and dedicate yourselves in all things in the spirit of love which prompted Our Lord to institute the Holy Eucharist, wherein He perpetuates the gift of His love to the glory of the Father.

Peter Julian Eymard

#17. China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

Chen Guangcheng

#18. I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

Chen Guangcheng

#19. When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.

George Weah

#20. I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

Chen Guangcheng

#21. Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.

Gerry Adams

#22. My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

Chen Guangcheng

#23. I am not a hero.

Chen Guangcheng

#24. I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

Chen Guangcheng

#25. You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.

Mary Jo Bang

#26. There were many stages to the Atlantean civilization. During the later stages, scientists became involved with advanced particle physics. In particular they were interested in reverse gravity fields.

Frederick Lenz

#27. No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

John Cassavetes

#28. 'Downton Abbey' didn't have the impact it had just because it was a good story about people. It was something about that period and that world that was fascinating to people on a level that wasn't just as an entertainment.

Noah Hawley

#29. A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you're not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you're beautiful, just the way you are.

Candace Bushnell