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As I reflect on the successes and failures of our push for democracy, reading widely in search for a path out of authoritarian rule, I'll keep writing to encourage myself and those on my side.
Joshua Wong
Myself
Democracy
Writing
Path
Reading
Reflect
Side
Our
Rule
Those
Out
Push
Failures
Encourage
Authoritarian
Successes
Search
Keep
Widely
Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.
Joshua Wong
People
Hong Kong
Suppression
Kong
Line
Authoritarian
Front
Front Line
Confront
Stand
I am absolutely certain that my unlawful detention by the Thai authorities was motivated by their fear of youth movements around the world.
Joshua Wong
Youth
World
I Am
Fear
Unlawful
Detention
Absolutely
Around
Am
Motivated
Thai
Authorities
Movements
Certain
We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian state.
Joshua Wong
Hong Kong
State
Paper
Status
See
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Freedoms
Kong
Want
Autonomous
Workings
Whose
Hong Kong people do not keep silent and I urge people around the world to keep their eyes on Hong Kong and the passion with which people are fighting for basic rights. We never give up and we will not be silenced.
Joshua Wong
Never Give Up
Rights
Eyes
People
World
Passion
Will
Fighting
Hong Kong
Silenced
Silent
Give
Never
Around
Kong
Up
Which
Urge
Keep
Basic
Basic Rights
The Lantos Human Rights Prize is intended to serve as a beacon of hope, justice and human decency in a world too often covered in a shroud of darkness.
Joshua Wong
Hope
Justice
Rights
World
Darkness
Decency
Human Rights
Too
Beacon
Covered
Prize
Intended
Often
Human
Serve
Shroud
We recognize Taiwan as the beacon of Asian democracy.
Joshua Wong
Democracy
Recognize
Beacon
Taiwan
Asian
Hong Kong's government needs to bear most of the responsibility for the Fishball Revolution.
Joshua Wong
Government
Needs
Responsibility
Revolution
Bear
Most
Kong
Beijing's imperial reach extends far and wide, from Taiwan and Xinjiang to the South China Sea and beyond.
Joshua Wong
Imperial
Taiwan
Reach
Beyond
South
Beijing
China
Far
Far And Wide
Sea
Wide
Back in 2014, my fellow Hong Kongers and I hoped to use nonviolent means to fight for our territory's democratic system - a simple right, promised by Beijing, to choose our own leader.
Joshua Wong
Fight
Simple
Leader
Own
Back
Our
System
Promised
Hoped
Democratic
Fellow
Territory
Nonviolent
Beijing
Means
Use
Choose
Right
I'm optimistic Hong Kong will achieve universal suffrage - no matter the attitude of Beijing.
Joshua Wong
Attitude
Matter
Achieve
Will
Hong Kong
Kong
Optimistic
Beijing
Suffrage
Universal
Universal Suffrage
Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.
Joshua Wong
Freedom
Our
Pursuit
Contained
Cannot
Held
Bodies
Captive
We should, through civic referendums, determine our own pathways and political status after 2047, because in this lies the future of our democratic movement. If Hong Kong could exercise democratic self-governance under the sovereignty of China, it would not be necessary for us to take this step on the path toward independence.
Joshua Wong
Future
Political
Path
Independence
Own
Hong Kong
Our
Status
Would
Lies
Civic
Determine
Could
Through
Take
Step
Toward
Democratic
Because
Exercise
Kong
Political Status
Sovereignty
Movement
After
China
Us
Should
Necessary
We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse of human rights, political censorship and mass incarceration. We stand with all the free peoples of the world and hope you stand with us in our quest for justice and freedom.
Joshua Wong
Hope
Home
Freedom
You
Justice
Rights
People
World
Political
Censorship
Will
Free
Long
Human Rights
Our
Respected
Civil
Freedoms
Mass
Abuse
Subject
Quest
Surveillance
Human
Where
Children
Us
Incarceration
Stand
As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.
Joshua Wong
Political
Suppressed
Further
Civil
Civil Disobedience
Remaining
Voices
Political Spectrum
Disobedience
Even
Spectrum
Carrie Lam is a proxy leader.The final decision-maker is President Xi.
Joshua Wong
President
Final
Carrie
Carrie Lam is not the leader elected by people of Hong Kong.
Joshua Wong
People
Leader
Hong Kong
Carrie
Kong
Elected
Detention cells in Hong Kong are not pleasant. In Thailand they are even worse. In Hong Kong you are at least allowed to see your lawyers.
Joshua Wong
You
Hong Kong
Pleasant
Worse
See
Detention
Lawyers
Allowed
Kong
Least
Thailand
Cells
Your
Even
Even Worse
Historically, Hong Kong has served as an important bridge between China and the world. Our freedoms, stability and the rule of law have been the reasons for our success.
Joshua Wong
Success
World
Law
Important
Hong Kong
Our
Rule
Rule Of Law
Between
Freedoms
Kong
Been
Historically
Stability
China
Reasons
Bridge
Served
My generation, the so-called post-'90s generation that came of age after the territory was returned to China, would have the most to lose if Hong Kong were to become like just another mainland Chinese city, where information is not freely shared and the rule of law is ignored.
Joshua Wong
Age
Generation
Law
Become
Lose
Hong Kong
Rule
Rule Of Law
Would
City
My Generation
Shared
Freely
Like
Most
Returned
Another
Territory
Kong
Came
Were
Just
Where
So-Called
After
Information
China
Chinese
Ignored
If Hong Kong could exercise democratic self-governance under the sovereignty of China, it would not be necessary for us to take this step on the path toward independence.
Joshua Wong
Path
Independence
Hong Kong
Would
Could
Take
Step
Toward
Democratic
Exercise
Kong
Sovereignty
China
Us
Necessary
China is dead set on making Hong Kong more like it.
Joshua Wong
Hong Kong
More
Like
Dead
Kong
Making
China
Set
Countries often prioritise economic interests over human rights - hence all the kowtowing to China.
Joshua Wong
Rights
Human Rights
Economic
Countries
Over
Often
Human
China
Interests
Hence
Hong Kong is different to mainland China. We protect our freedoms. We ask for free elections to elect the leader of our city.
Joshua Wong
Free
Leader
Hong Kong
Our
City
Freedoms
Protect
Kong
Different
China
Elect
Ask
Elections
Having grown up under Chinese rule, I don't have any memory of colonial Hong Kong or feel any attachment to it.
Joshua Wong
Memory
Hong Kong
Rule
Having
Colonial
Attachment
Feel
Kong
Up
Any
Chinese
Grown
Grown-Up
Hong Kong is the city with the highest degree of freedom of all the Chinese territories.
Joshua Wong
Freedom
Degree
Hong Kong
City
Highest
Highest Degree
Territories
Kong
Chinese
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