Chen Guangcheng Quotes

• 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

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

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Matter, Happens, Feel

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

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Safety

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

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Small, Jail

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

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doing, Conscience

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

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Women, Cannot

• 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

• I am not in exile.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exile

• I am not a hero.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hero

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

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Society

  Tags in True, Measure

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

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Rule, China

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.

Related Authors

• Adam Yauch
• Melissa Etheridge
• Breyten Breytenbach
• Audre Lorde
• Miriam Makeba
• Marian Wright Edelman
• Charles W. Chesnutt
• Joseph Sobran
• Sojourner Truth
• Charlotte Bunch

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 31st March

Births

• 1944 - Mick Ralphs
• 1938 - David Steel
• 1596 - René Descartes
• 1955 - Stephen Lynch
• 1916 - Tommy Bolt

Deaths

• 1894 - William Robertson Smith
• 1998 - Tim Flock
• 2002 - Barry Took
• 2008 - Robert F Goheen