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Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping, originally named Deng Xiansheng, was born on August 22, 1904, in Guang'an, Sichuan Province, China. He was a great proletarian revolutionary, politician, military strategist, and diplomat, a loyal communist fighter, the overall designer of China's reform and opening up and modernization construction, the founder of the socialist road with Chinese characteristics, and the main founder of Deng Xiaoping Theory. Deng Xiaoping's life was a lifelong struggle for the independence, liberation, prosperity, democracy, civilization, and harmony of the Chinese nation. more

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“We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.”

“If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can be, and it will be used to keep the price of silver in line with its value in our present silver coin. There will be no profit in holding them out of circulation for the value of their silver content.”

“A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.”

“Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.”