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People in Hong Kong still believe in democracy – the big question after the Umbrella Movement is how we can achieve it.

— Benny Tai There will be darker times ahead for Hong Kong but the sun will rise again (2019)

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I only said that independence was one theoretical option for Hong Kong if the party collapses, alongside a federal state or an EU-style confederation.

We’re moving from a semi-democratic to a semi-authoritarian system and the central government wants to limit our freedoms.

There will be darker times ahead for Hong Kong, but the sun will rise again. We need to keep strong.

There will be darker times ahead for Hong Kong but the sun will rise again (2019)

If the struggle for democracy is a long battle, what is a few months or years in prison if I can gain more resilience for the future.

There will be darker times ahead for Hong Kong but the sun will rise again (2019)

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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