Political Quotes

“Madam President, this past Sunday, hundreds of thousands of protesters filled the streets of Hong Kong to remind Beijing that totalitarianism will no longer go unchallenged. I was reading a New York Times article about this protest when I came across a particularly striking quote. When asked why she had taken to the streets, a 24-year-old biology researcher named Alice said: We want Hong Kong to continue being Hong Kong. We don't want to become like China. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record this article on the Hong Kong human rights protest, that appeared in the December 9 edition of the New York Times and that depicts a beautiful picture of what people will do for the cause of freedom. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From the New York Times, Dec. 7, 2019] Hong Kong Protest, Largest in Weeks, Stretches Several Miles (By Javier C. Hernandez and Elaine Yu) Hong Kong.--Hundreds of thousands of protesters, basking in a recent election victory by Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp, poured onto the city's streets on Sunday in one of the largest marches in weeks to pressure the government to meet demands for greater civil liberties. The huge turnout was a reminder to China's leader, Xi Jinping, that the monthslong campaign against his authoritarian policies still had broad support in Hong Kong despite a weakening economy and increasingly violent clashes between protesters and the police.…”