Joshua Wong famous quotes

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.
-- Joshua Wong

#Leadership #Justice #Community

I hope that even if I go to jail, it will motivate more and more Hongkongers to commit to determine our future, instead of fully relying on those ruling class who have dominated our future.
-- Joshua Wong

#Jail #Class #Ruling

Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.
-- Joshua Wong

#Rights #Democracy #Teens

If I don't commit to fighting for the future, 20 years later, 30 years later, after the end of the expiration date of the joint declaration, Hong Kong will be more at risk and in greater danger.
-- Joshua Wong

#Fighting #Years #Risk

I'm not scared, because I know that I need to face the trial. What I mean is, I already expect I will need to pay the price.
-- Joshua Wong

#Mean #Pay The Price #Trials

I don't know if I'm going to jail for three weeks, three months, or three years, but I think what I've done to motivate Hongkongers to care about this city, to try to love this country, is still valuable.
-- Joshua Wong

#Country #Thinking #Cities

I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who have had to face political prosecution, the activists in Hong Kong nowadays are already quite lucky compared to that.
-- Joshua Wong

#Past #Thinking #Jail

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.

The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.