Apology Quote by Ma Jian

What we saw in Tiananmen Square 31 years ago was a massacre, a massacre of innocent people that came from Hong Kong but also…

— Morgan Ortagus

One of the problems of truth being censored for a really long time is that people lose the ability to intuit what truth might…

— Salman Rushdie

“To look squarely at the suffering of the ordinary people whose misery is recorded in the transcripts makes me feel that I am not…

— Xiaobo Liu

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never…

— Tom Lantos

Tiananmen Square is a sensitive topic because many things happened there. The idea of turning the plaza into a forest makes many people feel…

— Ma Yansong

In spring 1989...I saw the buildup of demonstrations from Chengdu to Tiananmen Square. It struck me that fear had been forgotten to such an…

— Jung Chang

Chinese people are indignant. Indignant! For decades, despite everything, they tried to make peace with the West. They are in fact the most peaceful…

— Andre Vltchek

The same thing will happen in China that happened in Chile. Political freedom will ultimately break out of its shackles. Tiananmen Square was only…

— Milton Friedman

Right after September 11, 2001, there weren't really any blogs in China, but there were a lot of Chinese chatrooms - and there were…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“The [Tiananmen] Gate was built during the Ming Dynasty and used by Emperors for making public appearances and proclamations. The Gate, like Tiananmen Square,…

— Douglas Adams

We first became conscious of the plane publicly on a Monday. I thought then by the weekend it would be done. But then the…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“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