Liu Shao-ch’i

“Only through the peoples own struggles and effort

can their emancipation be achieved, maintained and consolidated.

It cannot be bestowed or granted by any outsider. Nor can

it be fought for or secured through the efforts of anyone

except the people themselves.

Hence an attitude of gratuitously bestowing emancipation

on the masses or of fighting in their stead is wrong.”

Liu Shao-ch’i.

Excerpted from “Fanshen”, author, William  Hinton.

Published by Alfred A, Knopf, Inc., New York, and

Random House, Inc., New York.

Islander.