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How can human rights be ever developed for the majority of Chinese people? The only way is to organize. To organize workers, peasants, merchants, industrialists, and students at the grassroots level. ”
We say that a group united and developed in the royal way, by forces of nature, is a race; a group united and developed by way of might, by human forces, is a state. This, then, is the difference between a race or nationality and a state. ”
In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture and industry have fallen completely into the hands of the capitalists. The greater the amount of capital, the more abundant the resources that can be utilized. ”
The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries toward self-determination and self-government. It should offer resistance to foreign aggression, and simultaneously, it should revise foreign treaties in order to restore our equality and independence among the nations. ”
Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek. ”
I was quite good academically. My uncles wanted me to go for the civil services. ”
If we truly understand, remember, and love the people of Indonesia, let us accept this principle of social justice, that is, not only political equality, but we must create equality in the economic field, too, which means the best possible well-being. ”
The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation. ”
We must have a blueprint not only for a guided economy but for a social order based on justice and ensuring the well-being of the people. ”
Religious freedom is one of the most fundamental of human rights because religious freedom comes from the dignity of the human being as God's creature. ”