Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook…

Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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…

— Joshua Wong

I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's wear in the Northeast and wanted to investigate…

— George Zimmer

The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the…

— Chen Shui-bian

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still…

— Eric Allin Cornell

Back in eighth grade, I'd seen nothing but small-town Georgia when I left the U.S. for the first time and went to Hong Kong,…

— Chandler Massey

I don't think we need political activists on the Supreme Court or any other level of court.

— Dick Mountjoy

“Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.”

— Christopher Bram

“With a few exceptions, conservative Christian political activists are as ineffective as White Russian exiles, drinking tea from samovars in their Paris drawing rooms,…

— Rod Dreher

In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what…

— Lawrence Lessig

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected…

— Will Self

There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This…

— Paul Wellstone

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Communist China and re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Taiwan politics certainly is colorful.

— Rebecca MacKinnon