Chen Guangcheng Quotes

• How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Society

  Tags in True, Measure

• I am not a hero.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hero

• I can be jailed again at any time, it is very easy. They can say I am a criminal and just lock me up.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Again, Criminal

• China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Rule, China

• I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Women, Cannot

• I am not in exile.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exile

• I feel it’s in people’s nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Evil, Embrace

• I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I’m very grateful to all of you.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Myself, American, People

• I’m just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doing, Conscience

• I’ve come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Small, Jail

• My safety and my family’s safety are not guaranteed even now.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Safety

• No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Matter, Happens, Feel

• The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Person, Anything

Chen Guangcheng (13)

Birth:	12th November, 1971
Nationality:	Chinese
Profession:	Activist

About

Chen Guangcheng is a Chinese civil rights activist who worked on human rights issues in rural areas of the People's Republic of China. Blind from an early age and self-taught in the law, Chen is frequently described as a "barefoot lawyer" who advocates for women's rights, land rights, and the welfare of the poor. He is best known for accusing people of abuses in official family-planning practices, often involving claims of violence and forced abortions. Chen is a 2007 laureate of the Ramon Magsaysay Award and in 2006 was named to the Time 100.

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