"Even if I were crushed into powder, I would still use my ashes to embrace you." - to his wife.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-40585327Comparisons with the human rights record and propaganda efforts of Nazi Germany are particularly dismaying for Beijing after a period in which it feels it has successfully legitimised its one-party state on the world stage. At the G20 summit in Hamburg earlier this month, no world leader publicly challenged President Xi over Liu Xiaobo's treatment. With China increasingly powerful abroad and punitive at home, there are few voices raised on behalf of its political dissidents. -Carrie Gracie
There was a time, I was shocked by Chinese middle class disdain for dissidents, some of them relatively liberal point of view. Their first nerve reflex was always to find a reason to blame the dissidents. All the finger pointing to victims, instead of people who are arrested, tortured and imprisoned them; after all, the State apparatus is always the State apparatus. --Foreign policy (James Palmer) *07-11