China, as a major nation of the world, as one of five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, and as a member of the U.N. Council on Human Rights, should be contributing to peace for humankind and progress toward human rights.

I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.

Our political system continues to produce human rights disasters and social crises, thereby not only constricting China's own development but also limiting the progress of all of human civilization.

Liu Xiaobo Quotes