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““They verbally attacked each other with Mao's quotations, making cynical use of his guru-like elusiveness––it was easy to select a quotation of Mao's to suit any situation, or even both sides of the same argument.””

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“So the story of Wild Fox Kang’s attempted coup and murder of Cixi lay in darkness and obscurity for nearly a century, until the…

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My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it…

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For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad:…

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“Meanwhile, Mme Mao and her cohorts were renewing their efforts to prevent the country from working. In industry, their slogan was: "To stop production…

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“I was extremely curious about the alternatives to the kind of life I had been leading, and my friends and I exchanged rumors and…

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“Unlike most founding dictators—Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler—Mao did not inspire a passionate following through his oratory, or ideological appeal. He simply sought willing recruits among…

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“MAO TSE-TUNG, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world’s population, was responsible for well over 70 million…

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“mosquito-netted open windows was an enormous privilege. ‘You must not think you are superior to them,’ he would say. ‘You are just”

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When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself:…

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“Poverty drove their parents to have them castrated as young children, hoping they would earn a better living at court. Usually the father would…

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I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me…

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If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told…

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In the past there were too many portraits of Chairman Mao in China. They were hung everywhere. That was not proper and it didn't…

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Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to…

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One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

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It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters, on seizing…

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“When was the last time an American president found it worth his while to write a speech on the importance of art and literature?…

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The Catholic Church spends a lot of time in very poor countries trying to recruit and spread the Gospel. Let me put it that…

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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

Ferdinand Marcos

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It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to Chairman Mao,…

Richard M. Nixon

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Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his…

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But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England,…

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The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.

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I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because…

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