Reign of terror Quote by Barbara Demick

“Traffic was in confusion for several days. For red to mean "stop' was considered impossibly counterrevolutionary. It should of course mean "go." And traffic…

— Jung Chang

“The bourgeoisie...by its imperialist methods of appropriation is destroying the economic structure of the world and human culture generally. Nevertheless, the historical persistence of…

— Leon Trotsky

“If American misjudgments and actions that evolved into human tragedies—i.e., racism, sexism, and other bigotries—are guiding lights, the Chinese leadership must ultimately yield its…

— Patrick Mendis

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation…

— Omar N. Bradley

This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions…

— Enver Hoxha

I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were playing at…

— Grace Lee Boggs

In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with…

— Xi Jinping

I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

— Woody Guthrie

“From the point of view of the Chinese Communist Party, the greatest casualties of the Cultural Revolution were the Party’s prestige and its ability…

— Nien Cheng

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

— Jackie Chan

“During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese lived and died by their class backgrounds. They boasted about ancestors who had starved to death. But if a…

— Jan Wong

“But this was not enough on its own to generate the kind of terror that Mao wanted. On 18 August, a mammoth rally was…

— Jung Chang