Remembering Liu Xiaobo: A Selection of Quotes

On Christmas Day, 2009 Liu Xiaobo–activist writer, literary critic, co-author of Charter 08, and future Nobel Laureate–was sentenced to 11 years in prison, and two years without political rights for “inciting subversion of state power.” Liu’s sentence has been the harshest yet received by a dissident writer in China.

On December 9, 2011, one year after the Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Liu, who remains in prison, PEN American Centercalled on U.S. Congress and the international community to continue to advocate for his release, and “remind the Chinese authorities that we haven’t forgotten him.”

To support PEN’s efforts in remembering and recognizing Liu’s thoughts, Sampsonia Way presents a slide-show of quotes from works and interviews spanning his career–from the 1989 June Second Hunger Strike Manifestoto his 2007 article, “Further Questions About Child Slavery in China’s Kilns,” which contains material used to convict him of his crimes against the Chinese state.

Click to read more about Liu Xiaobo and view the slide show at Samp...