Tiananmen Quotes
13 quotes by 9 authors
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There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up.…
— Ai Weiwei
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[They let] friendship with the leaders in China obscure our devotion to freedom and democracy when those kids set up in Tiananmen Square, and I…
— William J. Clinton
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The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget…
— Tom Lantos
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the…
— Ma Jian
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been…
— Ma Jian
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media…
— Ma Jian
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If you go to Tiananmen Square, or go to any public area in China, you will hear my music at some point.
— Kenny G
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After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set…
— Ma Jian
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The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin -…
— Gary Ross
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Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I…
— Bai Ling
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Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen square? Was Fashion the reason why they were there?
— System Of A Down
Who Wrote These Tiananmen Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 13 Tiananmen Quotes as follows: