Fang Lizhi

Fang Lizhi (12 February 1936 – 6 April 2012) was a Chinese astrophysicist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He eventually had to move to the USA.

"Fang Lizhi" in The Economist (2012)

 * Quotes of Fang, in his obituary, in The Economist (14 April 2012), p. 98


 * All of us have direct experience of the Supreme.


 * [Marxism-Leninism is] a worn-out dress that should be thrown away.


 * If every one of those good words — liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights — has been called "bourgeois", what on earth does that leave for us?


 * A rising economic power that violates human rights is a threat to peace.