#HKUSU #Statement
Students' Union of University of Hong Kong: "Hongkongers, We Shall Give Our Lives to Freedom"
The University of Hong Kong Students' Union released a frontpage statement on #AppleDaily on #Aug14. Conveying Hongkongers' determination to pursue freedom, the open letter quoted #WinstonChurchil 's speech in the #WWI and #HannahArendt 's works as well as the struggles for democracy in #Taiwan and #SouthKorea. The letter goes:
“Students were arrested, a newspaper office was raided, election was turned into ‘mere figurehead’, and a professor was dismissed. All of these are merely the prologue to a long gloomy night. It seems that the future of this city can only get ever duller. We might be weak confronting the totalitarian party-state, but we are not alone.
We have the free world walking with us."
The message is clear: "Hongkongers, We Shall Give Our Lives to Freedom"; and
“Through blood, toil, tears and sweat, we will strive on."
Read the full version here: HKUSU #Aug14
Students' Union of University of Hong Kong: "Hongkongers, We Shall Give Our Lives to Freedom"
The University of Hong Kong Students' Union released a frontpage statement on #AppleDaily on #Aug14. Conveying Hongkongers' determination to pursue freedom, the open letter quoted #WinstonChurchil 's speech in the #WWI and #HannahArendt 's works as well as the struggles for democracy in #Taiwan and #SouthKorea. The letter goes:
“Students were arrested, a newspaper office was raided, election was turned into ‘mere figurehead’, and a professor was dismissed. All of these are merely the prologue to a long gloomy night. It seems that the future of this city can only get ever duller. We might be weak confronting the totalitarian party-state, but we are not alone.
We have the free world walking with us."
The message is clear: "Hongkongers, We Shall Give Our Lives to Freedom"; and
“Through blood, toil, tears and sweat, we will strive on."
Read the full version here: HKUSU #Aug14