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**Quotations by Mao Zedong Cindy Choi

**  __**Quotation:**__ //1. "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained, and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."// __**Explanation:**__ Mao tries to tell us through the quotation above that a revolution is never kind, easy, or gentle; a revolution is an insurrection. Basically, the revolution is said to be a violent act which one class overthrows another. The cultural revolution was indeed one of the most violent revolutions, which ended up taking away many lives. A revolution will always be like this, cruel and violent.

__**Quotation:**__ //3. "Wherever there is struggle, there is sacrifice, and death is a common occurrence. But we have the interests of the people and the sufferings of the great majority at heart, and when we die for the people it is a worthy death. Nevertheless, we should do our best to avoid unnecessary sacrifices."// __**Explanation:**__ The quotation above shows Mao's view of glorifying the meaning of death, as long as it contributes towards a greater cause, that is always communism, whether it is struggle or sacrifice one needs to make. Nonetheless, people should avoid making unnecessary sacrifices because it is not for a greater cause.

__**Quotation:**__ //4. "Protect the interests of the youth, women, and children- provide assistance to young students who cannot afford to continue their studies, help the youth and women to organize in order to participate on an equal footing in all work useful to the war effort and to social progress, ensure freedom of marriage and equality as between men and women, and give young people and children a useful education..."// __**Explanation:**__ Mao explains in this quotation of how we should protect the interests of the youth, women, and the children. He also mentions that people should hep out other people who are unpriviledged to education and help them have an equal footing in all work useful to the war. Men and women should have equality and freedom of marriage and give young people a proper and useful education.

__**Quotation:**__ //5. "In any society in which classes exist, class struggle will never end. In classless society, the struggle between the new and the old between truth and falsehood will never end. In the fields of the struggle for production and scientific experiment, mankind makes constant progress and nature undergoes constnt change; they never remain at the same level. Therefore, man has constantly to sum up experience and go on discovering, inventing, creating, and advancing."// __**Explanation:**__ Mao states that if there is a society in which classes exist, there will always be a class struggle, meaning the clashes of the classes. However in a classless society, there will be a struggle between the new and the old and between the truth and the falsehood, meaning the different opionions of the people. Through these sentances, Mao tries to highlight how people will 'never reamin at the same level', which he concludes that man has constantly to sum up experience and they will go on discovering, inventing, creating, and advancing.

__**Quotation:**__ //7. "The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you."// Mao is clearly telling this quote to the younger revolutionaries about how the future all depend on the students themself. This idea is expressed through how they are 'full of vigor and vitality' and hos they are the 'bloom of life'. Mao's reforms were mostly students in universities, and the students were the main participants of the Chinese revolution. You can see that Mao had high expectation of the students and saw them as the new hope of China.
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