Bombard the Headquarters — my big-character poster.
炮打司令部——我的一张大字报。
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Mao Zedong
Founder of the PRC and first CCP Chairman (1893-1976). A Hunan peasant who co-founded the Party in 1921, he proclaimed the People's Republic in 1949 — and presided over the Great Leap and Cultural Revolution.
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Mao Zedong's Other Quotes
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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.
If you want to know the internal contradictions of a thing you must take part in the practice of changing it.
Women hold up half the sky.