Worms
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Whenever someone says there is nothing universal in people of diverse backgrounds; whenever someone says once again that 'our values' differ from 'Western values' as far as the drive for justice and freedom is concerned, I reread Bung Karno's 1930s defense speech Indonesia Accuses! Then I read something else, for instance this time, Liao Yiwu.
One night in June 1989, Liao Yiwu, a Chinese poet from the Sichuan region, was startled to hear that thousands of students who had gathered in Tiananmen Square in Beijing and who were demanding that the ruling Communist Party establish democracy, were fired upon by the army.
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'Whether given rights or not...
every creature... eventually reacts,
if it has been...too tortured by anger!'
Sukarno, Indonesia Accuses!
Whenever someone says there is nothing universal in people of diverse backgrounds; whenever someone says once again that 'our values' differ from 'Western values' as far as the drive for justice and freedom is concerned, I reread Bung Karno's 1930s defense speech Indonesia Accuses! Then I read something else, for instanc
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