4 Quotes & Sayings By Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo is a Chinese human rights activist and winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power", and died on July 13, 2017.

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I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes. Liu Xiaobo
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Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. Liu Xiaobo
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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. Liu Xiaobo