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Sun Yat-sen

Chinese Leader

Born: Nov 12, 1866

Died: Mar 12, 1925

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We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people to seize our political power, for only when we Han are in control politically do we have a nation. Sun Yat-sen

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China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good friends. By the same token, the Chinese people, new to the republican politics, must be educated properly. The revolutionary government should be the people's tutor to impart advanced awareness and experience. Sun Yat-sen

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I am a Christian; God sent me to fight evil for my people. Jesus was a revolutionist; so am I. Sun Yat-sen

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The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries toward self-determination and self-government. It should offer resistance to foreign aggression, and simultaneously, it should revise foreign treaties in order to restore our equality and independence among the nations. Sun Yat-sen

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For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations. Sun Yat-sen

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We want to overthrow the imperial power not because it is Manchurian but because we want republicanism... We republican revolutionaries can never have the notion of becoming emperors after the revolution, like all the peasant rebels did in the past. Sun Yat-sen

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Our position is extremely perilous; if we do not earnestly promote nationalism and weld together our four hundred millions into a strong nation, we face a tragedy - the loss of our country and the destruction of our race. To ward off this danger, we must espouse nationalism and employ the national spirit to save the country. Sun Yat-sen

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I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study. Sun Yat-sen

Mathematics Science Youth Physics Political Chemistry Hong Kong Examinations Had Studies Study Kong Passed Geography West Overseas Political Science Experienced Literature Customs Languages English Medical Chance

The difference between the Chinese workers and foreign workers lies in the fact that the latter are oppressed only by their own capitalists and not by those of other countries. Sun Yat-sen

Own Other Other Countries Those Latter Lies Only Fact Between Countries Foreign Oppressed Difference Chinese Workers Capitalists

Because of poverty, we must adopt the capitalist means of production to develop our resources to get rich. However, if we ignore the issue of social justice at the beginning of China's industrialization, we will sow the seeds of class warfare in the future. Sun Yat-sen

Future Class Justice Will Poverty Beginning Rich Our Resources Must Class Warfare Seeds Adopt Develop Industrialization Because Issue However Get Sow China Warfare Social Capitalist Means Production Social Justice Ignore

In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture and industry have fallen completely into the hands of the capitalists. The greater the amount of capital, the more abundant the resources that can be utilized. Sun Yat-sen

When only a minority consisting of capitalists can enjoy the good life, while the majority of workers must endure hardship, they will naturally not be able to live together in peace and harmony. Sun Yat-sen

Japan today has become acquainted with the Western civilization of the rule of Might, but retains the characteristics of the Oriental civilization of the rule of Right. Now the question remains whether Japan will be the hawk of the Western civilization of the rule of Might, or the tower of strength of the Orient. Sun Yat-sen

I am a coolie and the son of a coolie. I was born with the poor, and I am still poor. My sympathies have always been with the struggling mass. Sun Yat-sen

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It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization. Sun Yat-sen

Work Future Capitalism Socialism Will Side Evolution Civilization Economic Economic Forces Idea Make Forces Human China Human Evolution Create Two

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability. Sun Yat-sen

Education Knowledge People Intelligence Stupidity Will Broad Those Ability All-Around Only Develop Talent Talents Schools Narrow Providing End Up Train May Them Useful Who Specialty Set

At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature. Sun Yat-sen

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All my comrades must continue to exert their efforts according to my 'Programme of National Reconstruction,' 'Outline of Reconstruction,' the 'Three Principles of the People,' and the 'Manifesto' issued by the First National Congress of our Party, and strive on earnestly for the consummation of the end we have in view. Sun Yat-sen

If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them. Sun Yat-sen

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