Political Quotes

“I think that it would be simply wrong because of the issue of Harry Wu's rights. What he has attempted to do is to have the tragedies exposed, the gross violations of human rights that have occurred in China. He has risked his life. I think we ought to learn from that. I would like to quote for you from his book ``Bitter Wind.'' It was published in 1994. In discussing his decision to return to China in 1991 to film his famed expose, ``The China Secret Prison Facilities,'' he wrote in 1991: I married, and for the first time I found deep personal happiness. But just 4 months later I arranged to travel back to China. Outside China much was known about the Nazi concentration camps and about the Soviet gulag, but almost no information was available about the carefully developed system of forced labor that had kept millions of Chinese citizens incarcerated in brutal and dehumanizing conditions, frequently without sentence or trial. Returning to China meant risking my own rearrest and reimprisonment. Perhaps I would once again disappear. Even though I had wanted to forget the suffering of the past after arriving in the United States and had wanted to heal the wounds in my heart, the 19 years of sorrow would not stop returning to my mind. I could not forget those who still suffer inside the camps. If I did not undertake this task, I asked, who would?…”