Quotes from Joshua Wong

If the Internet or air traffic of the financial center of the world shuts down, of course the world needs to have a say on it.

We shall continue our fight for democracy and freedom because we do not accept that Hong Kong will be transformed into a police state.

I hope to make clear that involvement in small scale community work can make a difference in our city's politics.

The education system of Hong Kong has often been slammed for marginalising a lot of people.

I love the sense of belonging in Hong Kong. I love that it is such an international city. I love our food and our language. The people are energetic and passionate. I just really love this city.

I am a pro-democracy activist asking for free elections in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong's government needs to bear most of the responsibility for the Fishball Revolution.

We want Hongkongers to decide the future of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is different to mainland China. We protect our freedoms. We ask for free elections to elect the leader of our city.

China is dead set on making Hong Kong more like it.

Having grown up under Chinese rule, I don't have any memory of colonial Hong Kong or feel any attachment to it.

We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong people may be ethnically Chinese, but lots of people do not consider ourselves, including me, as Chinese citizens.

Carrie Lam is not the leader elected by people of Hong Kong.

Sometimes it feels as if I major in activism and minor in university.

If Hong Kong could exercise democratic self-governance under the sovereignty of China, it would not be necessary for us to take this step on the path toward independence.

I'm truly convinced that by living up to the values we stand for, we can serve as a moral inspiration for others, just as we've been morally inspired by those who came before us.

I'm a Christian and my motivation for joining activism is that I think we should be salt and light.

Beyond the barricades we long to see a Hong Kong free from tyranny and a puppet government.

The Umbrella Movement can be described as an encyclopedia. Politicians and student leaders wrote it, and let the masses read it and react passively.

The anti-extradition movement is larger and much more organised than the Umbrella Movement in 2014.

In December 2014, during the final days of the Umbrella Movement, prominent signs proclaiming We'll Be Back sprang up along Harcourt Road, one of the three major thruways occupied by peaceful pro-democracy protesters for nearly three months.

During the Umbrella Movement, the police force wasn't in control, and the police ignored the law and tried to use extreme force to hurt people.

My generation could be the first in Hong Kong to be worse off than our parents.