Chen Guangcheng

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

— Chen Guangcheng

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

— Chen Guangcheng

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

— Chen Guangcheng

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving…

— Chen Guangcheng

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

— Chen Guangcheng

I am not in exile.

— Chen Guangcheng

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

— Chen Guangcheng

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

— Chen Guangcheng

I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation,…

— Chen Guangcheng

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

— Chen Guangcheng

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

— Chen Guangcheng

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

— Chen Guangcheng

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

— Chen Guangcheng

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

— Chen Guangcheng

My fervent hope is that it would be possible for me and my family to leave for the U.S. on Hillary Clinton’s…

— Chen Guangcheng