Quotable
quotes
Revolution: A means to an end
"The revolution... is
a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
Fidel Castro (1926-), president of Cuba.
"Revolution
is trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."
Tom Stoppard (1937-),
English drmatist who writes plays for radio and television.
"The first duty of a revolutionary
is to get away with itt."
Abbie Hoffman
(1936-1989), American-born
Jewish activist in the U.S. civil rights movement.
"The most heroic
word in all languages is revolution."
Eugene Debs (1855-1926), the first president of the American Railway
Union and one of the founding members of the Social Democratic Party in the
United States.
"This
country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever
they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their
constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right
to overthrow it."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865),
the 16th president of the United States.
1 January 1912
China's national father inaugurated
On 1 January 1912, Dr. Sun
Yat-sen was inaugurated as At the age of 19, he enrolled in the Nanhua Medical School of Guangzhou
Boji Hospital in China but was later transferred to the Hong Kong College
of Medicine for Chinese. During this period, Dr. Sun met his best friends—Chen
Shaobai, Wang Lie and Yang Heling—and they often discussed political
affairs. These discussions gave inspiration to Dr. Sun. Dr. Sun originally intended to help strengthen the Qing government.
But he later realized that the only way to save China was to establish
a new government because of the education and inspiration he obtained
in Hong Kong. He once mentioned that all his revolutionary thoughts
originated in Hong Kong. Graduated in 1892 with excellent academic results, Dr. Sun became a
doctor. However, he chose to be a revolutionary to save China. In 1984, Dr. Sun founded Xingzhonghui in Honolulu. He later returned
Hong Kong and set up headquarters at 15 Stanley Street. This was his
first step to plan a revolution against the Qing government. In 1905,
he founded Tongmenhui, uniting all revolutionaries together. After lots of failures, the revolutionaries eventually succeeded in
the Wuchang Uprising in 1911. Most provinces were free from the Qing
government control and proclaimed independence. Revolutionaries set
up a republic in Nanjing, and Dr. Sun was elected as the provisional
president. It was Dr. Sun who brought an end to imperial rule and started a new era in modern China. He led China in a new direction.
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